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ˈpot-holing, vbl. n.
Also potholing.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The exploration of underground pot-holes.
1899Jrnl. Yorkshire Ramblers' Club I. 63 The sport of cave-hunting and pot-holing, apart from its scientific interest, has fascinations and charms peculiar to itself. 1908Pearson's Mag. Mar. 280/1 Subterranean mountaineering, which is, in the vernacular, pot-holing, indisputably possesses a fascination of its own. 1925Jrnl. Fell & Rock Climbing Club VII. 69 An afternoon's pot-holing..was the only mountaineering done. 1935Times 27 July 13/4 The pot-holing clubs of Yorkshire and Lancashire have already joined to form a rescue organization. 1967Potholing & Caving (Know the Game Ser.) 12/1 The words caving and potholing are used loosely to mean the same thing... Technically a cave is an underground system which may or may not be large enough to admit a human being... A pothole is a natural hole in the ground or a cave system, containing shafts or pitches. 1975Times 9 Sept. 6/2 Mr. Tony Harrison, aged 19, a member of Lancaster University's potholing team, has been killed in a fall, in a cave.
2. The formation of pot-holes.
1903Geogr. Jrnl. XXI. 672 Of this [erosion] Mr. Ball thinks that at least two-thirds is accounted for by the pot-holing action. 1941Jrnl. Geomorphol. IV. 71 (heading) Pot-holing of limestone by development of solution cups. |