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WATER HOLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water hole mean?
• WATER HOLE (noun)
The noun WATER HOLE has 1 sense:
1. a natural hole or hollow containing water
Familiarity information: WATER HOLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A natural hole or hollow containing water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("water hole" is a kind of...):
Context examples
He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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"The word goes out but the message is lost." (Corsican proverb)