# hole
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /həʊl/, [hɔʊɫ]
** (doll–dole merger) IPA: /hɒl/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /hɐʉl/, [hɔʊɫ]
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /hoʊl/, [hoɫ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: [hoːɫ]
** (Scotland) IPA: /hol/, [hoɫ]
* Rhymes: -əʊl
* Homophone: whole

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.

#### Noun

hole (plural holes)
* A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
    I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
* An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
    There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 12:9:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
** 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:[…] her palfrey’s footfall shot Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
* (heading) In games.
** (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
** (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
    I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.
** (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
    The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
** (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
** (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
** In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
* (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
* (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
    I have found a hole in your argument.
** 2011, Fun (lyrics and music), “We Are Young”:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
* (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
* (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
* (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
    Just shut your hole!
* (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
* (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
* (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
    Synonym: box
** 1988 April 2, Ed Mead, “AIDS hysteria sweeps prison guards' union”, in Gay Community News, page 9:In late December a Washington State prisoner was involved in a scuffle with a guard who was trying to take him into the hole.
** 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down:Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
* (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
    His apartment is a hole!
** 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 109:I have often heard people say, "One can't live upon a view," and I have heard some of the most beautiful places called "awful holes," simply because of the monotonous lives led in them.
* (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
    If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
* (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
* (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
    We’re supposed to take the hole at Cronk and wait for the Limited to pass.
* (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
    Jackson Hole

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:hole
* (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit

##### Derived terms

* ace in the hole
* a-hole
* air hole
* airhole
* analog hole
* analogue hole
* anthole
* antihole
* armhole
* arm hole
* arrow-hole
* arsehole
* ash-hole
* asshole
* ass hole
* Aubrey hole
* back hole
* batty hole
* beam hole
* bean hole
* beanhole
* Beck Hole
* bench-hole
* blackhole
* black hole
* black-hole
* blasthole
* blind hole
* blockhole
* block hole
* blow a hole through
* blowhole
* blue hole
* bolthole
* bolt-hole
* bonus hole
* bootyhole
* borehole
* boy hole
* BTZ black hole
* bullet hole
* bullethole
* bumhole
* bum hole
* bung-hole
* burn a hole in one's pocket
* burn a hole in someone's pocket
* burr hole
* butthole
* button hole
* buttonhole
* button-hole
* cakehole
* cat hole
* cathole
* cat-hole
* c-hole
* chuckhole
* clearance hole
* cloud hole
* coal hole
* cockhole
* cookie hole
* core hole
* corehole
* cornhole
* coronal hole
* couldn't piss a hole in the snow
* countersunk hole
* crabhole
* cradle hole
* craphole
* creephole
* cryoconite hole
* cubbyhole
* cubby hole
* cuddy-hole
* cum hole
* cumhole
* cum-hole
* cyberhole
* Dane-hole
* denehole
* d-hole
* dickhole
* dig a hole for oneself
* dig oneself in a hole
* dig oneself into a hole
* dig out of a hole
* dihole
* docker hole
* doghole
* donut hole
* doo-doo hole
* dookie hole
* doughnut hole
* Dove Holes
* down-hole
* downhole
* dreamhole
* drinking hole
* driphole
* drophole
* dry hole
* dumb hole
* dunghole
* dusthole
* dust hole
* Dust-Hole
* earhole
* earthhole
* egg in a hole
* egg-in-a-hole
* electron hole
* exit hole
* eyehole
* facehole
* fallstreak hole
* farthole
* feedhole
* ff-hole
* f-hole
* fighting hole
* fingerhole
* finger hole
* firehole
* fire in the hole
* five-hole
* floss hole
* foothole
* fox-hole
* foxhole
* fox hole
* front hole
* fuckhole
* funk hole
* funkhole
* get one's hole
* glory-hole
* glory hole
* gnamma hole
* gobble hole
* go five-hole
* graph hole
* gully-hole
* gunk-hole
* hand-hole
* handhole
* hardie hole
* hardy hole
* hawsehole
* Hell hole
* hell-hole
* hell hole
* hellhole
* Hetton-le-Hole
* hide-hole
* hidey-hole
* high-hole
* hole-and-corner
* hole-board test
* hole card
* hole carding
* holeful
* hole in one
* hole in the head
* hole-in-the-wall
* holeless
* holelike
* holeproof
* holepunch
* hole punch
* hole punch cloud
* hole saw
* holeshot
* hole state
* holey
* holk
* holyhedron
* honey hole
* hulk
* Hutton-le-Hole
* ice hole
* in the hole
* jackhole
* Jackson Hole
* jaw-hole
* Johnson hole
* Judas-hole
* Kerr black hole
* Kerr-Newman black hole
* kettle hole
* keyhole
* K-hole
* kilnhole
* kneehole
* knothole
* know one's ass from a hole in the ground
* know one's head from a hole in the ground
* know someone from a hole in the ground
* know someone from a hole in the wall
* know the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
* knucker hole
* knuckerhole
* lamphole
* leghole
* like a hole in one's head
* like a hole in the head
* like one needs a hole in the head
* linnet hole
* loop hole
* loophole
* love hole
* lubber's hole
* lughole
* maintenance hole
* man-hole
* man hole
* manhole
* mayhole
* melon hole
* memory hole
* memory-hole
* microhole
* minihole
* miracle hole
* Mohole
* mouse-hole
* mousehole
* mudhole
* multihole
* murder hole
* murder-hole
* nanohole
* neckhole
* nesthole
* news hole
* nineteenth hole
* nosehole
* oarhole
* oar-hole
* optical black hole
* outhole
* overflow hole
* ozone hole
* peehole
* peekhole
* peephole
* pesthole
* photohole
* pick a hole in someone's coat
* pie-hole
* pie hole
* piehole
* pigeon-hole
* pigeon hole
* pigeonhole
* pilot-hole
* pilot hole
* pinhole
* pin-hole
* pisshole
* placket hole
* plot hole
* plughole
* pocket-hole
* pocket-hole jig
* poke holes in
* poophole
* pophole
* porthole
* posthole
* pot-hole
* pot hole
* pothole
* potholing
* priest hole
* priest's hole
* primordial black hole
* pritchel hole
* pseudohole
* pukehole
* punch hole
* pussyhole
* pussyo
* put the wood in the hole
* quasihole
* quiggly hole
* rabbit hole
* rathole
* rat hole
* regular black hole
* Reissner-Nordström black hole
* ringhole
* rock hole
* rockhole
* roothole
* rudderhole
* rum hole
* Schwarzschild black hole
* scumhole
* scupper hole
* security hole
* shakehole
* shake hole
* s-hole
* shothole
* sighthole
* sink-hole
* sink hole
* sinkhole
* sleazehole
* slimehole
* sludge hole
* slut hole
* smokehole
* snowhole
* snowman hole
* sound hole
* spider hole
* spithole
* spouthole
* spyhole
* square peg in a round hole
* stakehole
* starting hole
* stinkhole
* stokehole
* stumphole
* suckhole
* supermassive black hole
* swallow hole
* sweat hole
* swimming hole
* swirlhole
* tailhole
* taphole
* teaze-hole
* three-hole punch
* through-hole technology
* thru-hole technology
* thumbhole
* toad in a hole
* toad in the hole
* toad-in-the-hole
* tone hole
* top-hole
* top hole
* touch hole
* touch-hole
* touchhole
* traphole
* two-hole punch
* underhole
* uphole
* venthole
* waffle hole
* waterhole
* water hole
* water-hole
* watering hole
* watering hole attack
* weephole, weep hole
* wellhole
* white hole
* winding hole
* Wokey Hole
* wonky hole
* woodhole
* Wookey Hole
* wool-hole
* word hole
* work the hole
* wormhole

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: ホール (hōru)
* → Korean: 홀 (hol)
* Sranan Tongo: olo

##### Translations

Adyghe: абан (aban), гъуанэ (ğʷanɛ)
Albanian: vrimë (sq) f
Aleut: hunax̂, tatax̂
Apache:
Western Apache: o'i'án
Arabic: (open spot in a thin surface) ثَقْب m (ṯaqb); (hollow in something deep) حُفْرة f (ḥufra)
Egyptian Arabic: حرق m (ḥarʔ), خرم m (ḵurm)
Hijazi Arabic: خُرْق m (ḵurg), خُرْم m (ḵurm), فَتْحة f (fatḥa), حُفرة f (ḥufra), ثُقْب m (ṯugb)
South Levantine Arabic: خرم m (ḵurm), خزق m (ḵuzq)
Aragonese: forau
Armenian: անցք (hy) (ancʻkʻ), ծակ (hy) (cak)
Aromanian: gavrã f, guvã f
Assamese: গাঁত (gãt) (bigger), ফুটা (phuta) (smaller)
Asturian: furacu (ast) m, buracu (ast) m, fueyu m
Azerbaijani: deşik (az), dəlik (az)
Bashkir: батынҡы урын (batınqı urın); соҡор (soqor)
Belarusian: дзі́рка f (dzírka)
Bengali: গর্ত (bn) (gorto)
Bhojpuri: छेद (chēd)
Bulgarian: ду́пка (bg) f (dúpka), я́ма (bg) f (jáma)
Burmese: တွင်း (my) (twang:)
Catalan: forat (ca) m
Chechen: ӏуьрг (ˀürg)
Cherokee: ᎠᏔᎴᏒᎢ (atalesvi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 窿 (lung$^1$)
Mandarin: 孔 (zh) (kǒng), 洞 (zh) (dòng), 穴 (zh) (xué)
Corsican: tufone
Crimean Tatar: teşik
Czech: díra (cs) f
Danish: hul (da) n
Dutch: gaatje (nl) n, gat (nl) n, holletje (nl) n, opening (nl) f
Egyptian: (qrrt f)
Erzya: варя (vaŕa)
Esperanto: truo (eo)
Estonian: auk (et)
Evenki: саңар
Faroese: hol n
Finnish: kuoppa (fi), kolo (fi)
French: creux (fr) m, trou (fr) m
Galician: burato (gl) m, buraco m, pía (gl) f, foca (gl) f
Georgian: ნახვრეტი (naxvreṭi), ხვრელი (xvreli)
German: Loch (de) n, Grube (de) f, Grübchen (de) n, Mulde (de) f, Vertiefung (de) f, Kerbe (de) f
Greek: τρύπα (el) f (trýpa), οπή (el) f (opí)
Ancient: ὀπή f (opḗ), τρύπη f (trúpē), τρύπημα n (trúpēma), βόθρος m (bóthros)
Greenlandic: putu
Hebrew: חור \ חֹר (he) m (khor)
Hindi: छेद (hi) m (ched), छिद्र (hi) m (chidra)
Hungarian: lyuk (hu)
Icelandic: hola (is) f
Ido: truo (io)
Ilocano: abut
Indonesian: lubang (id)
Ingrian: reikä, uuttu
Ingush: ӏург (ˀurg)
Irish: poll m
Italian: buco (it) m, pertugio (it) m, foro (it) m, cunicolo (it) m, fessura (it) f
Japanese: 穴 (ja) (あな, ana)
Kapampangan: busbus
Karachay-Balkar: тешик (teşik)
Karaim: tiešik
Kaurna: yapa
Kazakh: тесік (tesık), жыртық (jyrtyq)
Khakas: тизік (tizìk)
Khmer: រូង (km) (ruung), រន្ធ (km) (rŭən)
Kikuyu: irima class 5
Korean: 구멍 (ko) (gumeong)
Kumyk: тешик (teşik)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چاڵ (çall)
Northern Kurdish: kun (ku)
Kyrgyz: тешик (ky) (teşik)
Ladino: foyo
Lao: ຂຸມ (lo) (khum), ຮູ (hū)
Latin: cavum (la) n, forāmen n; fovea f (in the ground); lacūna (la) f (especially with water)
Latvian: bedre f, dobums m
Lingala: libúlú
Lithuanian: duobė f
Lombard: bus (lmo)
Macedonian: дупка (mk) f (dupka)
Malay: lubang (ms)
Malayalam: തുള (ml) (tuḷa), ദ്വാരം (ml) (dvāraṁ), ഓട്ട (ml) (ōṭṭa), സുഷിരം (ml) (suṣiraṁ)
Manx: towl m
Maori: poka
Mari:
Eastern Mari: аҥ (aŋ)
Mongolian: нүх (mn) (nüx)
Nanai: сангар (saŋar)
Nogai: тесик (tesik)
Norn: gad n
Norwegian: hull (no) n
Occitan: trauc (oc) m
Odia: ଛିଦ୍ର (or) (chidra)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: дира f (dira)
Old Czech: dúpě f
Old Prussian: prālī f
Pashto: سورى m (suráy, sóray), بغره f (baǧára), غار (ps) m (ǧār), منفذ m (manfáz)
Persian: سوراخ (fa) (surâx)
Plautdietsch: Loch (nds) n
Polabian: dară f
Polish: dziura (pl) f
Portuguese: buraco (pt) m, oco (pt)
Punjabi: ਮੋਰੀ f (morī), ਮੋਰਾ m (morā)
Quechua: t'uqu
Romanian: gaură (ro)
Russian: впа́дина (ru) f (vpádina), я́ма (ru) f (jáma)
Samoan: lua (sm)
Saterland Frisian: Gat n
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: отвор m, рупа f
Roman: otvor (sh) m, rupa (sh) f
Shor: тежик (težik)
Sicilian: pirtusu (scn) m, purtusu (scn) m, bucu (scn) m
Skolt Sami: kååʹpp
Slovak: diera f
Slovene: luknja (sl) f
Southern Altai: тежик (težik)
Spanish: agujero (es) m, hoyo (es) m, pozo (es) m, buso (es) m (disused), forambre m (disused), horaco m (disused), buraco m, huraco (es) m, hura (es) (small), hurera f (small), hoya (es) f (in the ground), foya f (in the ground, disused), socava (es) f (in the ground), alcorque (es) m (in the ground), cavia f, buco (es) m, potro (es) m (in the ground)
Old Spanish: foyo
Sranan Tongo: olo
Swedish: hål (sv) n
Tagalog: butas
Tajik: сурох (surox)
Tamil: ஓட்டை (ta) (ōṭṭai)
Tatar: чокыр (tt) (çoqır); батынкылык (batınkılıq)
Thai: หลุม (th) (lǔm), รู (th) (ruu)
Tibetan: ཁུང་བུ (khung bu), ས་དོང (sa dong)
Tocharian B: kāre
Tofa: дэлік (delik)
Turkish: delik (tr)
Turkmen: deşik
Tuvan: дежик (dejik)
Ukrainian: ді́рка f (dírka)
Urdu: چھید m (ched)
Urum: тэшик (tešik)
Uyghur: تۆشۈك (töshük)
Uzbek: teshik (uz), tuynuk (uz)
Venetan: bus (vec) m
Vietnamese: lỗ (vi)
Vilamovian: łöch m
Volapük: hog (vo)
White Hmong: qhov
Yakut: хайаҕас (qayağas)
Yiddish: לאָך (lokh)
Zazaki: qul f
Zhuang: congh :
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#### Verb

hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)
* (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
    Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
* (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
    She completely holed the argument.
* (intransitive) To go into a hole.
** 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, act IV, scene ii:Good master Picklock, with your worming brain, And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly! A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a pillory!
* (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
** 1799, Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 49:If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
    Woods holed a standard three foot putt
* (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
    to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

##### Derived terms

* holeable
* hole out
* holer
* hole up

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)
* Obsolete spelling of whole.
** 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
    Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
* Misspelling of whole.

### Anagrams

* Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦolɛ]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

hole
* inflection of hůl:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

hole
* masculine singular present transgressive of holit

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhoːlə/
* Rhymes: -oːlə

### Verb

hole
* inflection of holen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Hausa
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hóː.lèː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [hóː.lèː]

### Verb

hōlḕ (grade 4)
* to relax, to enjoy oneself

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English hāl.

#### Adjective

hole
* healthy
* safe
* whole, complete, full

##### Alternative forms

* hol, ol, ole, hoal, hoale, hoel, hoil, hoille, holle, wholle
* hal, hale, halle (Northern)

##### References

* “hōl(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

#### Adverb

hole
* wholly

##### Alternative forms

* hol

##### References

* “hōl(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

#### Noun

hole (plural holes)
* whole, entirety
* health
* remedy, cure

##### Alternative forms

* hol

##### References

* “hōl(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

#### Descendants

* English: whole
* Scots: hole, holl
* ⇒ Yola: holghe

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English hol.

#### Noun

hole (plural holes or holen)
* hole

##### Alternative forms

* hol, ol, ole, holle, hoil, houl, hul

##### Descendants

* English: hole (see there for further descendants)
* Scots: hole
* Yola: hullès (plural)

#### References

* “hō̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Old English hulu; see hull for more.

#### Noun

hole (plural holes)
* hull (the outer covering of a fruit or seed)
* hut, shelter
* hull (of a ship)

##### Alternative forms

* hol, holle, hul, hule, ule, hulle, ulle, hoile, huole

##### Descendants

* English: hull
* Scots: huil

#### References

* “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4
#### Alternative forms

* holn

#### Verb

hole
* past participle of helen (“to cover”)
    Synonym: heled

### Etymology 5
#### Adjective

hole
* Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)

### Etymology 6
#### Noun

hole (uncountable)
* Alternative form of oile (“oil”)

### Etymology 7
#### Noun

hole (plural holen)
* Alternative form of oule (“owl”)

### Etymology 8
#### Adjective

hole
* Alternative form of holy (“holy”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Derived from Old Norse hola.

### Noun

hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
* alternative form of hule

### References

* “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* hòle

### Etymology

Derived from Old Norse hola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²hoːlə/

### Noun

hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
* cave
* (anatomy) cavity
* den

#### Derived terms

* armhole
* augehole
* bukhole
* holemålarstykke
* holemåleri
* munnhole

### References

* “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Noun

hole
* dative singular of hol

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-West Germanic *holōn (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul.

### Verb

hole
* to fetch

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦɔʎe]

### Noun

hole f
* inflection of hoľa:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Sotho
### Noun

hole class 17 (uncountable)
* far away

## Yola
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɔːl/
* Homophone: haul

### Verb

hole
* past participle of helt
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:Yith Muzleare had ba hole, t'was mee Tommeen,If Good-for-little had been buried, it had been my Tommy,

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47