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cradle holes

cradle holes is the plural of cradle hole.

Meaning of cradle hole

Noun

cradle hole (plural cradle holes)

  1. A sunken part in a road, caused by thawing, or by vehicles traveling over a soft spot.
    • Bang, bang! went the first sleigh over a cradle hole in the snow of the road, and each of the other sleighs jolted in the same way, and rudely breaking the frost bound stillness, the troykas began to speed along the road, one after the other.1952, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, War and Peace, Book 7 Chapter 10

Questions about cradle holes

What is cradle holes the plural of?
Cradle holes is the plural of cradle hole.

Words near cradle holes in the dictionary

  1. Cradle Catholic
  2. Cradle Catholics
  3. cradle crust
  4. cradle crusts
  5. cradle hole
  6. cradle holes
  7. Cradle Mountain
  8. cradle of civilization
  9. Cradle of Humankind
  10. cradle robber
  11. cradle robbers

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