hole

A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.

I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg.  I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.

An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.

There’s a hole in my shoe.  Her stocking has a hole in it.

The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.

In games.

In games.

I played 18 holes yesterday.  The second hole today cost me three strokes over par.

In games.

The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.

To make holes in (an object or surface).

Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.

To destroy.

She completely holed the argument.

To go into a hole.

Good master Picklock, with your worming brain, And wriggling engine-head of maintenance, Which I shall see you hole with very shortly! A fine round head, when those two lugs are off, To trundle through a pillory!

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.

Woods holed a standard three foot putt

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

Obsolete spelling of whole.

Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.

Misspelling of whole.