What is the name meaning of HOLE. Phrases containing HOLE
See name meanings and uses of HOLE!HOLE
HOLE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval personal name, a short form of Philpott.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a depression in the ground, from Middle English pot ‘drinking or storage vessel’ used in this transferred sense, or a habitational name from one of the minor places deriving their name from this word, in the sense ‘pit’, ‘hole’.English and North German (Lower Rhine-Westphalia) : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle English, Middle Low German pot ‘pot’. See also Potter.North German : topographic name for someone living on a low-lying plot, from Low German dialect pÅt ‘puddle’.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and North German (Hülse)
Dutch and North German (Hülse) : topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, Middle Low German huls, hüls.English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Cheshire, recorded in the mid 13th century in the forms Holes, Holis, and Holys. This probably represents a Middle English plural of Old English holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly southern) and Dutch
English (chiefly southern) and Dutch : topographic name for a dweller in a hollow (see Hole).English (chiefly southern) : topographic name for a dweller by a holly tree or on an island, from Middle English holm (see Holme) + man.
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : habitational name from places in Cheshire and Lancashire called Hollingworth, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.Jewish (American) : presumably an Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
Surname or Lastname
French
French : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Hildo (see Hildebrand, Houde).French : habitational name from any of several places in Normandy called La Houle or Les Houles, named in Old French with the singular or plural of houle ‘cave’.English : variant of Hole.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone living in a hollow, from Middle English hole ‘hollow’.German and Dutch : topographic name for someone living in a hollow or a wooded ravine, from Middle High German, Middle Low German hol (see Holl 1).German and Danish : variant of Holder 1.
Surname or Lastname
English (Kent)
English (Kent) : habitational name, probably from a lost place, Holmherst in Smarden, Kent; Holnest in Dorset is another possibility. Both are named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’.English (Kent) : reduced form of Holderness.
Surname or Lastname
English and Dutch
English and Dutch : variant of Holman.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname or occupational name for a servant of someone called Luck (a variant of Luke).North German (Luckmann) : topographic name from the dialect term luke ‘hollow’, ‘hole’.Dutch : derivative of the personal name Luc (see Lucas).Dutch : habitational name for someone from Luik, the Dutch name of Liège in Belgium.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name from an unidentified minor place named with Old English brocc ‘badger’ + wiella ‘spring’, ‘stream’ or hol ‘hole’, ‘hollow’. Old English brocchol is known to have developed into Brockwell in at least one instance, in Derbyshire. Both Brockwell Park in London and Brockwell Farm in Buckinghamshire are of comparatively recent origin, probably deriving their names from the surname rather than vice versa.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly southwest England)
English (mainly southwest England) : topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh ‘hole’, ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, so named from the dative singular or indefinite plural form of Old Norse hóll ‘round hill’, ‘mound’.Shortened form of Dutch van (den) Hole, a habitational name from the common place name Hol, meaning ‘hollow’, ‘depression’, ‘valley’, or a topographic name from the same term.
Surname or Lastname
English (northern)
English (northern) : habitational name from a lost place in County Durham called Hollingside or Holmside, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + sīde ‘hillside’, ‘slope’; there is a Hollingside Lane on the southern outskirts of Durham city. In some cases it may be from Hollinhead in Lancashire, so named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + hēafod ‘headland’, ‘ridge’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Hole.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for one whose job was to bore holes in something, Middle English borer.Swiss German : variant of Bohrer.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modern English holly (see Hollis).English and Scottish : topographic name or habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’, Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1).Danish and Swedish : variant of Holm 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly central)
English (mainly central) : topographic name for someone who lived where holly trees grew, from Middle English holi(n)s, plural of holin, holi(e) (Old English hole(g)n).
Surname or Lastname
English (northern England)
English (northern England) : habitational name from places called Hoole, in Cheshire and Lancashire. The former is so called from the Old English dative case hole of holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’; the latter from Middle English hule ‘hut’, ‘shelter’ (Old English hulu ‘husk’, ‘covering’). In both cases the final -e is now silent in the place name, but has been retained in the surname, with consequent alteration in the spelling.
Boy/Male
Native American
hole in the sky.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Hole 1.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a depression or low-lying spot, from Old English holh ‘hole’, ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chomhghaill, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Comhghal’ (see McCool). Woulfe, however, traces Hoyle (as well as MacIlhoyle and McElhill) to Mac Giolla Choille ‘son of the lad of the wood’, which has sometimes been translated as Woods.
HOLE
HOLE
HOLE
HOLE
HOLE
HOLE
HOLE
n.
A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
v. t.
To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.
a.
Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
n.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
a.
Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.
n.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
v. i.
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
n.
A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
n.
A hole for looking through; a peephole.
n.
A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
n.
A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
n.
A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
n.
A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.
v. i.
To go or get into a hole.
n.
A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
n.
Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.
n.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
n.
A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.