water hole

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noun
  1. a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.

  2. a source of drinking water, as a spring or well in the desert.

  1. a pond; pool.

  2. a cavity containing water in the dry bed of a river.

  3. a hole in the frozen surface of a lake, pond, stream, etc.

Origin of water hole

1
First recorded in 1645–55

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How to use water hole in a sentence

  • Cool wind makes weather endurable, but bees terrible in kitchen & around water-hole.

    Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
  • An investigation showed the rest of the herd standing around the water-hole.

  • When he got out of the water hole he wiped himself dry on the grass by lying on his side and pushing himself along with his feet.

  • Once I lay at a path near a water hole in the pocket of a half-dried stream, and killed two buffalo cows.

    The Way of a Man | Emerson Hough

British Dictionary definitions for water hole

water hole

noun
  1. a depression, such as a pond or pool, containing water, esp one used by animals as a drinking place

  2. a source of drinking water in a desert

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