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knot-hole

knot-hole is the alternative form of knothole.

Meaning of knothole

Noun

knothole (plural knotholes)

  1. In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are often convenient for peering through when they occur in fences.
    • Looking in the same direction, I saw that the knothole in the wall had indeed become a human eye -- a full, black eye, that glared into my own with an entire lack of expression more awful than the most devilish glitter.1893, Ambrose Bierce, Can Such Things Be, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014
  2. (Cincinnati, attributive) Youth league baseball.
    • But he was worried that a coach of a knothole team might not like the idea and not let me switch-hit. So, my dad went to the coach.1976, Pete Rose with Bob Hertzel, quoting Pete Rose, Pete Rose's winning baseball, H. Regnery Co., page 10

Forms of knot-hole

pluralknot-holes

Questions about knot-hole

What is knot-hole the alternative form of?
Knot-hole is the alternative form of knothole.

Words near knot-hole in the dictionary

  1. knot invariants
  2. knot off
  3. knot span
  4. knot spans
  5. knot theory
  6. knot-hole
  7. knot-horn
  8. knot-horns
  9. knotberries
  10. knotberry
  11. knotchel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knot-hole (page history and authors); knothole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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