Definitions
a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)
Word origin
From dialectal pot (“pit, hollow, cavity”) + hole. The "cave" senses, attested since at least 1809 (as pot-hole), may be from Middle English pot, potte (“a deep hole for a mine, or from peat-digging”), of uncertain origin; perhaps related to English pit, pote, or pot. Compare Scots pott, patt (“a pit dug in the ground; coalpit”).
Used in a sentence
“I was so tired that potholes, fumes and noise aside, I slept regardless, my head rag-dolling from side to side.”
“The previous Elantra had three problems: The steering hero-worshiped Novocain, occupants grew hoarse from shouting over road noise, and large potholes betrayed a lack of structure.”
“Stoves with two or more potholes The normal single-pot stove in which the pot sits on top, rather than being sunk into the pothole, has a major limitation.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Road surface pit”7 letters
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