highhole

American  

[hahy-hohl] / ˈhaɪˌhoʊl /

Also highholder

noun

1. flicker.

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Etymology

Origin of highhole

1785–95; earlier highwale, hewhole, variant of hickwall

Example Sentences

He tells of the highhole that repeatedly drills through the clap-boards of an empty house in a vain attempt to find a thickness of wood deep enough in which to build its nest. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack

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 Burroughs, John

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 Burroughs, John

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 London, Jack

When the highhole perforated the icehouse and let out the sawdust, you called him a lunatic .

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack