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ˈpost-hole
[f. post n.1 + hole n.]
1. A hole made in the ground to receive the foot of a post. Also spec. Archæol., a hole orig. dug to receive a wooden post and usu. packed with stones or clay to support the post. Also attrib. in the name of implements serving to make such holes, as post-hole auger, post-hole borer, post-hole digger; also post-hole evidence, post-hole pattern.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 134 The Fence must be cross a Field..where it is easie digging the Post-holes. 1888A. T. Pierson Evangelistic Work xxiii. 236 [They] dug post-holes with their own hands. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 87 The job at which I was put first was digging post holes, and..I found it rather a tough job. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 28 July 542/3 The misprint ‘portholes’ for ‘postholes’..should not betray the unwary reader into attributing too nautical a flavour to the Iron Age fort of Salmonsbury. 1936Discovery Apr. 99/2 New house-sites were brought to light: some were of wattle-and-daub, and another with a compacted floor and post-holes was similar in plan to one discovered in 1934. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 43 Photography..and analysis of post-hole evidence have disclosed a series of royal halls. 1963Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 37 There are no stone settings or any indications of post-holes. 1971World Archaeol. III. 120 Posthole patterns will be confused. 1977Antiquaries Jrnl. LVII. 261 ‘Stakehole’ is used here to mean the void made by the decay of timber post driven into the ground; ‘posthole’ means a larger hole excavated in order to insert a post.
2. A hole or well drilled to not very great depth.
1932Amer. Speech VII. 269 [Language of California oil fields.] Post-hole, a shallow hole. Post-hole territory, shallow productive territory—i.e., in which the oil sands lie at depths up to 2500 feet, ‘just under the grass roots’. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. ix. 133/1 The only published information directly relating to the ironsands represents the pioneering work of Nicholson, Fyfe (1958) who put down post-hole bores to depths of not more than 25 ft. |