…either of a pair of soundholes resembling an ∫ and a reversed ∫ in shape, cut in the front of musical instruments of the violin family, and some other stringed instruments such as semi-acoustic electric guitars or mandolins…
…a tool for making circular holes, consisting of a metal cylinder with a toothed edge…
…a salt lick, or a place where a block of salt is placed for stock to lick…
…a hole in a fence or divider through which animals can pass, especially one allowing poultry access to the outside or allowing piglets access to the sow…
…a hole in snow used as a temporary shelter, typically one made for the purpose…
…a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape…
…a place for hiding something or oneself in, especially as a retreat from other people…
…a device for punching holes in sheets of paper, so that they can be filed in a ring binder…
…a hollow, typically filled by a lake, resulting from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits…
…an imaginary place where inconvenient or unpleasant information is put and quickly forgotten…
…a region of marked thinning of the ozone layer in high latitudes, chiefly in winter, attributed to the chemical action of CFCs and other atmospheric pollutants. The resulting increase in ultraviolet light at ground level gives rise to an increased risk of skin cancer…
…a small hole in early firearms through which the charge is ignited…
…a hypothetical celestial object which expands outwards from a space-time singularity and emits energy, in the manner of a time-reversed black hole…
…a village in Falmouth in southeastern Massachusetts, at the southwest corner of Cape Cod, a resort and noted ocean research center…
…a valley on the Snake River in northwestern Wyoming, partly in Grand Teton National Park, home to a fashionable resort…
…a hiding place for a Roman Catholic priest during times of religious persecution…
…(of an electronic component) having leads which are designed to go through holes to the other side of a circuit board for soldering…
…a shot that enters the hole from the tee with no intervening shots…
…the bar in a golf clubhouse, as reached after a standard round of eighteen holes…
…an automatic cash dispenser installed in the outside wall of a bank…
…a congenital defect in the heart septum, resulting in inadequate circulation of oxygenated blood (a cause of blue baby syndrome)…
…a plan or piece of information kept secret until it becomes necessary to use it…
…a black hole of a kind supposed to result from the complete gravitational collapse of an electrically neutral and non-rotating body, having a physical singularity at the centre to which infalling matter inevitably proceeds and at which the curvature of space-time is infinite. A Schwarzschild radius is the radius of the boundary of a hole of this type…
…a dungeon 6 metres (20 feet) square in Fort William, Calcutta (now Kolkata), where perhaps as many as 146 English prisoners were confined overnight following the capture of the city by the nawab of Bengal in 1756. Only twenty-three of them were still alive the next morning…
…get oneself into an awkward or restrictive situation…
