• "a hole to admit or discharge air" MERRIAM-WEBSTER
• "Euphemism for asshole, frequently used by conservative talk show host Dick Farrel on WPBR talk radio in West Palm Beach, Florida. Also used at times in South Florida Radio News with credit to Farrel." URBAN DICTIONARY
• "an opening in the frozen surface of a river or pond" THE FREE DICTIONARY

• "an opening for the arm in a garment" MERRIAM-WEBSTER

• "Asshole sagt man nicht. Und so nennt man den lokalen Fracking-Verantwortlichen eben "Gashole", Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 101, 2. Mai 2013, S. 3
• "....she'll do anything
  to make you feel like an asshole
  call her name
  she looks the same as you.." Aus dem Song Asshole von Jeff Beck
• "'Arsehole', repeated Meryem, tasting the word with the tip of her tongue." Shafak, The island 195
• https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/

• 1) a nostril at the back of the head of whale 
  2) a hole in the ice through which seals, etc breathe 
  3) an opening for air, smoke, etc to escape in a tunnel
  OAL 113
• "For Floyd Collins, professional cave hunter in Kentucky, it was routine to walk over the ridges near his home in winter, looking for telltale blow-holes in the snow." Folsom, Exploring American Caves 216

• "He had built a bolthole here for himself, his desk piled with documents, books and academic papers." Shafak, The Island 323
• "a place where a person can escape and hide." Oxford languagues
• "A hole in an animal's den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit; i.e. a hole the animal may bolt through." WICTIONARY

• ""She's infested. Look, it has spread everywhere." He pointed at the branches coverec with tiny boreholes, the dry sawdust pulp at the foot of the trunk, the brittle dead leaves littering the ground." Shafak, The Island 292
• "a hole bored or drilled in the earth: such as. a : an exploratory well. b chiefly British : a small-diameter well drilled especially to obtain water" MERIAM-WEBSTER
• "A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. A borehole may be constructed for many different purposes, including the extraction of water, other liquids or gases, ." WIKIPEDIA

• "Along the demarkation line - the frontier - were delapidated houses riddled with bullet holes, empty courtyaards scarred with grenade bursts, boarded stores gone to ruin, ornamented gates hanging at angles from broken hinges, luxury cars from another era rusting away under layers of durst.." Shafak, The island 2
• "She...loosened the soil and eased out a dock weed. It long tap root trailed from her fingers. The deep, narrow cavity left in the ground resembled a bullet hole. She pushed a finger into the cavity and swallowed hard, her breath catching in her throat." Shafak, The island 227
• "Afterwards, there were mortar shell craters in the walls and bullet holes staring like empty eye sockets." Shafak, The island 306

• entrance to a mine CORNWALL (Macfarlane 198)

• "..she had married, quit unexpectedly, a bald man with a large buttonhole who owned, it was said, cotton mills at Manchester. And she had five boys." Woolf, Mrs Dalloway 201
• "That evening, at eight-thirty, exquisitely dressed, and wearing a large buttonhole of Parma violets, Dorian Gray was ushered into Lady Narborough's drawing-room by bowing servants." Wilde, Dorian Gray 121

• a hole or rut in a road or track.
• A term used to describe a pothole, especially in Indiana and nearby midwestern states, and during winter freezing weather. Most feared are water filled Chuck holes which can become hidden and big ones have been known to break off automobile wheels.

• Aus Silas Marner von George Eliot (Klassischer englischer Roman, Schulpflichtlektüre):
  Es geht um die Erziehung des Waisenkindes Eppie durch den einsamen Weber. Die Nachbarin Dolly Winthrop gibt ihm den Ratschlag, entweder er müsse das Kind schlagen, wenn es etwas gemacht habe, wo sie tun hätte sollen, oder er solle sie in "coal-hole" stecken.
  125 "you might shut her up once i' the coal-hole....That was I did wi' Aaron, for I was that silly wi' the youngest lad, as I could never bear to smack him. Not as I could find i' my heart to let him stay i' the coal-hole more nor a minute, but it was enough to colly him all over, so as he must be new washed und dressed, and it was as good as a rod to him - that was."
  127 "a small closet near the hearth"

• "a very small space in a house, used for storing things or hiding in" Longman, Dictionary of Contemporary English, 3. Auflage 1995, S. 333
• Name eines geheimen Ortes an einem Fluß im Roman "The Casual Vacancy" von J.K.Rowling

• "A source of water where animals congregate to drink, especially in an arid environment." thefreedictionary
• "A bar, pub, or tavern, especially one at which one spends a lot of time." thefreedictionary
• "is the opening on casino floors that the drink servers come out of and is usually a kitchen area." urban dictionary

• derelict clay-pit or quarry north Herefordshire (Macfarlane 198)

• a receptacle (as a box or cupboard) or area into which odds and ends are put haphazardly and in no particular order. 
• lazaretto sense
• sexual slang for a slot in a wall in which a man inserts his penis for sexual stimulation by someone on the ...

• "The Hare Hole is the name of the performance venue at Hares & Hyenas, which seats 75 people and is licensed for 80 for other events."
•  

• "a place of extreme misery or squalor" MERRIAM-WEBSTER

• "1 (a) a hollow place in a solid mass or surface: a hole in a tooth...(b) an opening through sth; a gap..
  2 (a) an animal's home; a BURROW: a mouse hole... (b) a small, dark or unpleasant room, district etc.
  3 an awkward or difficult situation: I'm afraid I'm in a bit of a hole
  4 (a) a hollow into which a ball, etc. must be hit in various games..."
  Oxford advanced Learner's Dictionary
• an opening, a hollow
  RIDOUT'S CHILDREN'DICTIONARY 69
• Though I curse the recurrence of each shining omen,
  the sun will come out, and warm up my right hand
  like that old crab flexing its fingers outside its hole.
  Fraim from damp holes, the courageous, pale bestiary
  of the sand seethes....
  Derek Walcott, Mittsommer / Midsummer, Hanser-Verlag
• "Seven years ago, sir, I happened to find myself in some filthy little hole of a town. I had some business there..." Dostoyevsky, Karamoazov, 42

• "Then Eddie groanded in the closed car; the later nudes of Mrs. Vaughn were as unconcealed as the frankest photographs of a cadaver...
  The very last of the nudes was the first pornography that Eddie O'Hare had ever seen, not that Eddie fully understood what was pornographic about the drawings. Eddie felt sick and deeply sorry that he'd seen the drawings, which had reduced Mrs. Vaughn to the hole in her center; ..." Irving, John, A Widow for one Year, Ballantine Books, New York May 1999

• an occasion in golf when the ball is hit from the TEE directly into the hole: do a hole in one, OED 544

• "As the ancient song bubbled up opposite Regent's Park Tube Station, still the earth seemed green and flowery: still, though it issued from so rude a mouth, a mere hole in the earth, muddy too, matted with root fibres and tangled grasses, still the old bubbling burbling song, soaking through the knotted roots of infinite ages, and skeletons and treasure, streamed away in rivulets over the pavement and all along the Marlebone Road, and down towards Euston, fertilizing, leaving a damp stain." Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, S. 91
  http://www.woolfonline.com/?node=content/contextual/transcriptions&project=1&parent=45&taxa=47&content=5847&pos=2

• (Loch aller Löcher): Name für die Yoni aus England, 19. Jhdt., "Verballhornung von Holy of Holiest - heiligstes aller Heiligtümer", Camphausen 133

• "Hare in a hollow hole..."

• gaping fissure, abyss YORKSHIRE (Macfarlane 201)

• hare hole in a dyke Galloway (Macfarlane 201)

• "By three o'clock, the heat...It hissed and slithered across the pavements, poked its flaming tongue through keyholes." Shafak, The island 145
• "I must rattle my chains, and groan through keyholes, and walk about at night, if that is what you mean. It is my only reason for existing." Wilde, Oscar, The Canterville Ghost
• "Once adopting he more charitable interpretation, we shall find no difficulty in comprehending the rose in the keyhole; the "Marie" upon the slate, the....Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Mystery of Marie Roget, S. 186
• "Nothing, it seemed, could survive the flood, the profusion of darkness which, creeping in at keyholes and crevices, stole round window blinds, came  into bedrooms, swallowed up here a jug and basin, there a bowl of red and yellow dahlias, there the sharp edges and firm bulk of a chest of drawers." Woolfe, To the lighthouse 196

• "a hole in a board or tree trunk where a knot or branch has come out" MERRIAM-WEBSTER
• "For we have no help but thee,
  Pitch or pothole, niche or knothole,
  We will blindly follow thee." Cornwell-Smith, They Words, Pennine Underground 43

• engl. (Guck)loch, Sehschlitz, Schießscharte, Schlupfloch, Hintertürchen
  "What causes hesitation is the fact that, after all, Mr. Wittgenstein manages to say a good deal about what cannnot be said, thus suggesting to the sceptical reader that possibly there may be some loophole through a hierarchy of languages or by some other exit." Bertrand Russell

• "I'd been seeing 'Fabrication Logrono' on manhole covers for days, which at least had the effect of managing expectations." Moore, S. 126
• a hole on the surface of a road covered by a lid, used to examine pipes, wires etc (Longman - Dictionary of Contemporary English, 3. Auflage, 1995, S. 867
• the opposite: "a hole on the surface of a road" not covered by a lid (gesehen in Diego Suarez, Madagaskar)
  

• "Children themselves seem to be dimly aware that things get a bit dull once they become used to them. In the village of Tibet, on the islands of the Pacific, in the outback of Australia, in our own country, and everywhere else in the world, children invent an re-invent the following game: You join thumb und forefinger to form a peep-hole and look through; the world looks suddenly new and surprising." (Rast, A Listening Heart, p 26)

• engl. "Nadelloch"
• "Raw concrete underfoot, and overhead a roof polka-dotted with pinholes of light, but with a bunk-bed to myself and the dim air faintly coloured.." Moore p 266

• "Meryem pulled the plug out, watching the water gurgle doewn the plughole in restless circles." Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees 115

• "a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence." dictionary.com
• In archaeology a posthole or post-hole is a cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone. They are usually much deeper than they are wide; however, truncation may not make this apparent." WIKIPEDIA
• "a hole dug for a post" MERIAM-WEBSTER

• "a circular hole formed in the rocky bed of a river by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water" MIRRIAM-WEBSTER
• "a pot-shaped hole in a road surface" MIRRIAM-WEBSTER
• "a deep natural underground cave formed by the erosion of rock, especially by the action of water"

• 1. rabbit's burrow.
  "a heather-covered hillside full of rabbit holes"
• 2. to refer to a bizarre, confusin, or nonsenical situation or environment, typically one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself. 
  "he'll continue fearmongering to promote his agenda no matter how for down the rabbit hole it takes him" OXFORD LANGUAGE

• "Upstream the passage ends in a choke but its probable head is a large shakehole quite close to St Catherine's 1 entrance." Tratman, NW-Clare 198
• "Dig somewhere stupid for B.C.C.
  You dig the shakeholes,
  And I'll dig the sinks..." Cornwell-Smith, They Words, Dig Somewhere Stupid 22
• "By the time that they get out, they could be oh so old.
  They're even queueing to go down the shake hole.
  Don't think twice it's alright." Cornwell-Smith, They Words, Don't Think Twice 182

• https://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/shithole.html
  Im Januar 2018 plötzlich sehr aktuell geworden. Die deutschen Medien geben, übersetzt, das Wort meist mit "Drecksloch" wieder, obwohl damit der Fäkalcharakter des Worts viel zu schamhaft weggeschrieben wird."Mit Empörung hat das UN-Menschenrechtsbüro auf kolportierte Äußerungen des US-Präsidenten Donald Trump reagiert, der Herkunftsländer von Einwanderern als "Dreckslöcher" bezeichnet haben soll."Wenn das so stimmt, sind dies schockierende und beschämende Äußerungen des US-Präsidenten", sagte Rupert Colville, Sprecher des UN-Hochkommissars für Menschenrechte, am Freitag in Genf."Man kann nicht ganze Länder und Kontinente als Dreckslöcher bezeichnen, deren Einwohner, die alle nicht weiß sind, deshalb nicht willkommen sind.
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• "'I don't blame you,' said Donna with a painful wheeze. 'Who'd wanna end up in a shit hole like this? It's the end of bleeding nowhere. The arsehole of the world." White
• "He would have to excuse this shithole, she said, and also the noise." Joyce p 153
• "One notable Dales caver said after his visit to Draughting Hole: 'It's a shithole.' But it was our shithole, and exploration was nowhere near finished." Loveridge, Labyrithine Labours 44

• "A sinkhole is a depression in the ground that has no natural external surface drainage. Basically, this means that when it rains, all of the water stays inside the sinkhole and typically drains into the subsurface." WIKIPEDIA
• "A sinkhole is an area of ground that has no natural external surface drainage--when it rains, the water stays inside the sinkhole and typically drains into the subsurface. Sinkholes can vary from a few feet to hundreds of acres and from less than 1 to more than 100 feet deep. Some are shaped like shallow bowls or saucers whereas others have vertical walls; some hold water and form natural ponds." USGS https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/sinkholes
• "Ein Sinkhole-Server (auch DNS-Sinkhole, Sinkhole-Server oder Internet-Sinkhole) ist ein DNS-Server, auf den schädliche Domainnamen umgeleitet werden. Diesen Eingriff nehmen die zuständigen Domain-Registrierungsstellen vor, nachdem der CERT.Bunddurch Analysen von Schadprogrammen" einen Zusammenhang zu bestimmten Domains herstellen konnte. https://it-service.network/it-lexikon/sinkhole
  

• "...solution of the field equations in German-born physicist Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity that resembles a tunnel between two black holes or other points in space-time. Such a tunnel would provide a shortcut between its end points." BRITANNICA.COM
• "A wormhole is a speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime." WIKIPEDIA
• "Wormholes are shoblrtcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general ..." SUPERNOVA.ESO...

• "A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into that horrid black hole." 
• "...writhed like lighting, and was gone
  Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front.."öll
• "And in one corner of her c**t she all of Swildons 2,
  The whole of Swildons 2, my boys,
  The Black Hole and the Sump
  And in the other corner..."

Cornwell-Smith, They Words, The Cavers Wife 68

• "Nearby, above the sighing of the wind, the dull roar of falling water rumbled in the depth of a dark hole, a seemingly bottomless pit, made more hospitable by the dark whispering of the surrounding trees that clung tenaciously to the pit's slippery sides, which gradually became bare of grass and steepened to drop vertically into the black opening of the pothole."
• "Well five hundred feet underground where it's black as night,
  There lies a dark hole in the beam of my light.
  Well I squirm in and onwards and ten round a bend.."

Cornwell-Smith, They Words, Neoprene Ned 102bggg

• "It pumped from one place to another
  A muddy great hole was washed out
  Without any effort or bother.."
• "I ain't seen it yet,
  And there's sodding great holes in the floor,
  I ain't gonna go down f**kin' caves no more."

Cornwell-Smith, They Words, I Ain't Gonna...

• "Oxford Pot, as the new hole was named, was thoroughly explored with members of the two clubs discovering new sections of passage almost every weekend."
• "Several new holes had appeared in the snow plug and a rift with a snow bridge had opened up where we thought there had been solid ice."
• "The U.B.S.S.'s divers, they found a brand new hole,
  They told no-one about it, they did not tell a soul,.."

Cornwell-Smith, They Words, Wessex Cave Club Hymn 48

• "One hole, the Chourun sans Nom, seemed to be going well when we hit a series of large chambers a thousand feet down, but then we struck a collapsed area, and huge rocks blocked the way on."
• "Higgenbotham...There was only one hole in the curtain, too small to permit passage of our bodies but through which we could look into anoter large grotto."

Folsom, Exploring American Caves 166

• "Maurice Fraise was also very much in evidence and he shook me by the hand and rolled a large boulder away from a small, round hole eighteen inches across."
• "There's a cavern vast and wide,
  With a small hole in the side,
  And it's here we sit and hide, down below."
• "Higgenbotham...Directly across from us was a small hole in the wall of the well which seemed to be a passage leading on."

Cornwell-Smith, They Words, Down Below 94

Folsom, Exploring American Caves 166