holing

Verb

hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)

1. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
   • Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
2. (broadly, transitive) To destroy.
   • She completely holed the argument.
3. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
   • Good master Picklock, with your worming brain,
     And wriggling engine-head of maintenance,
     Which I shall see you hole with very shortly!
     A fine round head, when those two lugs are off,
     To trundle through a pillory!1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, act IV, scene ii
4. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
   • If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.1799, Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 49
5. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
   • to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

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