water hole
a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
a source of drinking water, as a spring or well in the desert.
a pond; pool.
a cavity containing water in the dry bed of a river.
a hole in the frozen surface of a lake, pond, stream, etc.
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How to use water hole in a sentence
There’s a water hole at the end of every block, and at any one of them you might meet your fate.
The Intersection Is a City’s Watering Hole, and It’s Teeming with Life and Danger | wtaylor | August 20, 2021 | Outside OnlineWhether it’s the water hole or the intersection, an attack is inevitable.
The Intersection Is a City’s Watering Hole, and It’s Teeming with Life and Danger | wtaylor | August 20, 2021 | Outside OnlineWells also decreased the distance between water sources by an average of 843 meters, making this essential resource more accessible and easing tensions that can escalate among drinkers at isolated water holes, Lundgren says.
Wild donkeys and horses engineer water holes that help other species | Jonathan Lambert | April 29, 2021 | Science NewsApaches used what was once a marshy ciénaga as a water hole for centuries.
Big-Sky West Texas: A Road Trip Through Hidden America | Condé Nast Traveler | March 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMuch better but still weak Burros came in late & hung around water hole.
Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
Cool wind makes weather endurable, but bees terrible in kitchen & around water-hole.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerAn investigation showed the rest of the herd standing around the water-hole.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurWhen 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.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurOnce 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
a depression, such as a pond or pool, containing water, esp one used by animals as a drinking place
a source of drinking water in a desert
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