highhole
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of highhole
1785–95; earlier highwale, hewhole, variant of hickwall
Example Sentences
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Under unusual circumstances it still does the usual thing, wherefore the highhole perforating the ice-house is guilty of lunacy—of unreason, in short.
From Revolution, and Other Essays by Jack London
I have seen a sharp-shinned hawk pick up a highhole from the turf in a twinkling under just such conditions.
From The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers by John Burroughs
A highhole alights on the ground in full view in the orchard twenty yards away, and, spying my motionless figure, pauses and regards me long and intently.
From The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers by John Burroughs
But the swallow was familiar, and the robin and the wren and the highhole, while the woodchuck I saw and heard in Wyoming might have been the "chuck" of my native hills.
From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs
When the highhole perforated the icehouse and let out the sawdust, you called him a lunatic .
From Revolution, and Other Essays by Jack London
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