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English : occupational name for one whose job was to bore holes in something, Middle English borer.Swiss German : variant of Bohrer.
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English : variant of Hole 1.
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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).
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v. t.
A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
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To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.
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A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
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A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market.
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A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
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An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.
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A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
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A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.
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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.
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Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
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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.
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To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
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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.
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To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
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Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
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A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.
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A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
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To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
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A genus of marine bivalves which bore holes in wood. They are allied to Pholas.