2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a
natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark
lodging or place; a mean habitation. Dryden.
The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to
lay his head.
Luke ix. 58.
Syn. -- Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice;
interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell.
Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] "The wretched
trickery of hole and corner buffery." Dickens. -- Hole board (Fancy
Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift
certain warp threads; -- called also compass board.
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Hole (?), v. t. [AS. holian. See Hole, n.] 1. To cut, dig, or bore a
hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or
bars. Chapman.