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Word entry · 4 letters

hole

Best crossword clue

"Gap in a sock"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /həʊl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ehloStarts with HEnds with E3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Opening, gap, hollow place, or weakness.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.
  • 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.
  • There’s a hole in my shoe. Her stocking has a hole in it.

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Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Gap in a sock4 letters
02Gap in the ground4 letters
03Opening in something4 letters

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