Hole

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HOLE, sb.1 and v.1 Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng.
Also in forms haul w.Yks. Dev.; hawle Cor.; hoil Yks.
w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 w.Yks.5; hoile Yks.; hooal Cum.3 n.Yks.2 e.Yks.1;
hoyle Lan.; hul- Wxf.1; hyell Nhb.; oil w.Yks.; whoal
Cum.3; wholl Cum. [h)ōl h)oəl, w.Yks. oil.] 1. sb.
An opening, an empty space or cavity; gen. used with a
qualifying prefix.
w.Yks. Gate-hoil, door-hoil, window-hoil (J.T.); Wreng chimley
hoil, w.Yks. Alm. (1881) 21; w.Yks.3 Draught-hoil, pickin-hoil,
&c. Dev. Ma beluvid put in es han be tha haul uv tha dore,
Baird Sng. Sol. (1860) v. 4. e.Dev. My leuve putt in ez han' by
th' deur-haul, Pulman Sketches
Hence to put boards i' t'hoil, phr. to shut the door. w.Yks.
(S.P.U.), (J.W.)
2. A house; a room; a corner, recess; a coal-hole.
Yks. A house full, a hoile full. ‘Ya’ canna' fetch a bowl full.’
Answer, Reek, Riddle in N. & Q. (1865) 3rd S. viii. 325. n.Yks.
In contempt. ‘I wish I was out o' this hooal' (I.W.). e.Yks. They
meeade sike a row iv hooal, that Bob gat up off a creeal, Nicholson
Flk-Sp. (1889) 34. w.Yks. There's not another hoile to lig
down in i' th' hahse! Brontë Wuthering Hts. (1847) xiii; He
works i' t'combin' hoil (J.T.); w.Yks.2 O'll clear t'hoil a yond set;
w.Yks.5 We've bowt t'owd hoil twice over, 21. Lan. Thea'st have
a quart o'th best ale i' this hole, Waugh Owd Bodle 259; They
mun be somwhere i' th' hoyle, Westall Birch Dene (1889) I. 292.
Hence Hoilful, sb. a houseful, room-full.
w.Yks. There's a hoilful below, an' t'steps is full waitin' to cum
up, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 17; An' a rare hoilful ther
wor, Hartley Pudden (1876) 31.
3. A gallery in a mine or quarry; the opening in which
gunpowder, &c. is placed when blasting is necessary.
Nhb. Though still they're i' the hyell a ‘hewin,’ Wilson
Pitman's Pay (1843) 59. n.Yks. (C.V.C.) Cor. Stopped the
owld hop, an' jumped out like as ef a hawle wor going off,
Tregellas Tales, 33; (M.A.C.); Cor.3 An everyday word with
miners and quarrymen. When the explosion occurs the ‘hole’
is said to have ‘gone off.’
4. A gaol, prison.
w.Yks. Three or four custom-hawse officers pahnced on us, an'
tuk us to't hoile, Hallam Wadsley Jack (1866) xiii; They'l other
foin us, or else send us to't oil, Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1839) 9;
w.Yks.2 But wot's to become on us families when we gooan to
t'hoil; w.Yks.3 w.Yks.5 Lan. Eawr Dick 'll ha' to goo i' th' hole,
Brierley Irkdale (1868) 164.
5. A grave.
e.Yks.1 We put him intiv hooal, and happed him up, and that's
end on him.
6. Obs. Shelter, cover, esp. in phr. to take hole.
Fif. They landit at Balmernie: And there he took hole like a
rabbit, Tennant Papistry (1827) 67.
7. Obs. A hole dug in the surface of a vein to denote the
right of a miner to the vein which he has found.
Der. Manlove Lead Mines (1653) l. 268; A miner by digging
a hole, and cutting a cross upon the surface of a vein first found
by him, thereby gained by custom a perfect right to such vein...
It was the duty of the miner to fence in his holes and groves in order
that cattle might not fall into them, Tapping Gl. to Manlove (1851).
8. A sheep-mark.
Sh.I. These [sheep-marks] received such names as a shear,
a slit, a hole, Hibbert Desc. Sh. I. (1822) 185, ed. 1891.
9. sb. pl. A game of marbles; also in form Holie.
Bnff.1 Played by running the marbles into holes, three in number.
Rnf. ‘Holie’ is his favourite game, Hoo he birls them in, Neilson
Poems (1877) 92; Play of three round cup-shaped holes (at equal
distances) in which the ‘bools’ or marbles have to be rolled (A.W.).
Hence (1) Hoilakes, (2) Hoil-taw, (3) Hole-and-taw, sb.
a game of marbles.
(1) w.Yks.3 The marbles are cast into a hole in the ground.
Lit. ‘Hole lake,’ hole play (J.W.). (2) w.Yks. Can tah laik at
hoil-taw? Wyke Yks. Cousins (1895) 272. (3) N.I.1
10. Phr. (1) a hole in the or one's coat, a flaw or blemish
in character or conduct; (2) by the hole of one's coat, an
expletive; (3) to make a hole in the water, to commit suicide
by drowning; (4) to make holes in anything, to empty.
(1) Ayr. It was like butter in the black dog's hass for Jenny to
get haud of a hole in my coat like this, Service Dr. Duguid (ed.
1887) 102; If there's a hole in a' your coats I rede you tent it,
Burns Grose's Peregrinations (1789) st. 1. n.Cy. Holloway.
n.Yks. (I.W.) w.Yks.1 ‘To have a hole in his coat,’ to know of
some blemish in another's character. nw.Der.1 ‘Poo a hole in his
coat,’ disparage him. Nhp.1 s.Cy. To pick a hole in one's coat,
Holloway. (2) Ir. By the hole o' my coat, there's something
alive in it! Yeats Flk. Tales (1888) 190. (3) w.Yks. If it heddant
a been at ah wor affread on hur mackin a hoyle i t'wattar ah sud
a brockan t'conneckshan off, Tom Treddlehoyle Bairnsla Ann.
(1859) 28. (4) Lan. Took hold of the proffered pot, and to use
his own expression, 'made holes in it,’ Brierley Marlocks (1867) 88.
11. Comp. (1) Hole-ahin, a term of reproach; (2) Hole-gitten,
of obscure origin; (3) Hole-pits, vestiges of ancient British
dwellings.
(1) Kcb. Her tittas clap'd their pips an' hooted Ah, hole-ahin
Davidson Seasons (1789) 178 (Jam.). (2) n.Yks.2 (3) n.Yks.2 Each pit
having had heightened sides of stones and earth above ground,
with a roof formed, doubtless, of branches and sods. Originally
conical or hive-shaped, some exhibit a paved flooring; and stand
in a line like a street between parallel walls of earth.
12. v. To perforate, to drill a hole; to pierce, gnaw;
also used fig.
Gall. Those a-gnawing with hunger, are said to be ‘holin wi'
hunger,’ or that the worms are holing their bodies, Mactaggart
Encycl. (1824). Nhb.1 Chs.1 Salt-mining term. Cutting with a
chisel holes in various directions from twelve inches to thirty or
forty inches deep, and about one inch in diameter for the purpose of
blasting the rock-salt.
Hence (1) Holed, ppl. adj. suddenly pierced; (2) Holed-stone,
sb. a stone having a hole in it. Cf. holey-stone,
s.v. Holey.
(1) N.I.1 (2) Nhb. Holed stones are hung over the heads of
horses as a charm against diseases. Horses that sweat in their
stalls are supposed to be cured by the application of this charm.
The stone must be found naturally holed. If it be made it has no
efficacy (J.H.). Cor. [An] ancient custom which prevails to the
present day at the ‘holed stone,’ near the village of Lanyon,
Black Flk-Medicine (1883) iii.
13. In mining: to excavate a passage-way; to undermine
a seam of coal.
Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. They frequently hole or cut through from
one board to another, Compleat Collier (1708) 18; Holing, making
a passage of communication between one place and another,
Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). w.Yks. (D.T.); To open
into or make a communication with a working place (S.J.C.).
Shr.1 To cut round a block of coal in such a way as to detach it
for removal; Shr.2 [To undercut, Reports Mines.]
Hence (1) hole to grass, phr. to work a vein of metal to
the surface; (2) Holers, sb. pl. in a colliery: men employed
in ‘kirving’ where ‘getters’ and fillers are employed;
men who ‘hole’; (3) Holing, sb. the depth of coal displaced
by one blasting; (4) Holing about, phr. driving
in a pit with ‘bratticed’ air after a seam of coal has been
won; (5) Holing-shots, sb. pl. in blasting: shots nearest
the floor.
(1) Cor.1 (2) Nhp.1 Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888).
Shr.1 (3) n.Ayr. N. & Q. (1870) 4th S. vi. 339. (4) Nhb.1 In
order to establish the air communication between the downcast
and upcast shafts and to form off the shaft pillars and walls. (5)
w.Yks. (T.T.)
14. To dig, delve; with out: to dig out; fig. to expel.
Abd. To go down one evening to Craiguise to hole some fir to
make blazes, Deeside Tales (1872) 147. Frf. Willum was hol'ing,
and I was lifting, Barrie Tommy (1896) 342. Dmb. I'll hole out
McCorkle before I be mony days aulder, Cross Disruption
(1844) xxix.
15. To bury, inter; to make away with, murder.
s.Ir. Keep yourself from being holed as they holed Muster
Bingham the other day, Trollope Land Leaguers (1885) 13.
Wxf.1 84.
Hence Hooald or Hulth, ppl. adj. buried, interred. Wxf.1,
n.Yks.2
16. To put in prison, send to gaol.
w.Yks. Tell'd em abaht bein hoiled an fined, Yksman. (1877) 5,
col. 1; w.Yks.1
17. To claim possession of, to secure, ‘bag.’
Cum.3 Thou thinks th'u's hooal't our lile bit grund, 97; A great
hulking fellow thrust it into his pocket, exclaiming, ‘I've hooal't
that an',’ Cum.3 Gl.
18. To wear into holes; to have holes.
Lnk. When a shoe begins to hole, Be't upper-leather, or the sole,
Watson Poems (1853) 23. Cum. His shoon war wholl't, beath
nebs and heels, Gilpin Ballads (1874) 175.
Hence Holed, ppl. adj. having holes, worn into holes.
N.I.1 w.Yks. Ah can't bear a woman wi' a hauled stockin' (F.P.T.).
19. To hide; to take shelter, get under cover.
Nhb. The rysing moone... holed ahint a cloude, Richardson
Borderer's Table-bk. (1846) VII. 139. w.Yks. If it's bahn to rain
Ah think we'd better hoil, hed we n't? (S.K.C.); Wet to t'skin
What didn't ta hoil in somewhear for? Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Mar. 3,
1894). Lan. ‘How leets thou didn't hole?’ ‘Hole! wheer mut
I hole, at th' top o' Rooly Moor?’ Waugh Chim. Corner (1874)
169, ed. 1879; Lan.1, ne.Lan.1
Hence Hooal'd, ppl. adj. concealed. n.Yks.2
20. To earth as a fox; fig. to stay at home lazily; also
with on.
Abd. To shame the hincum-sneevie louns wha aye holed on at
hame, Cadenhead Bon-Accord (1853) 259. w.Yks.1 ne.Lan.1 ‘He's
holed,’ he's gone into the house.