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ˈpot-holer Also potholer. [f. as prec. + -er1.] Someone who goes pot-holing.
1900Jrnl. Yorkshire Ramblers' Club I. 134 The temptation to remain above ground certainly was very strong, and some of the pot-holers gazed rather wistfully after the men who, at the parting of the ways, left them for Ingleborough. 1908Pearson's Mag. Mar. 282/1 To see a party of pot-holers on the warpath you would think, from the mass of spars and cordage, that they had got some idea..of an inland voyage into their heads. 1935Times 27 July 13/4 At Derby to-day cave explorers and pot-holers from several parts of England will meet to found a British Speleological Association. 1957Times 10 Dec. 10/5 (heading) Six potholers brought out. Rescuers work all day. Community singing in cave. 1973D. Orgill Jasius Pursuit xi. 107 This kind of cat-run, in the potholers' experience, often led to a larger chamber. |