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underholing

underholing is the present participle and gerund of underhole.

Meaning of underhole

Verb

underhole (third-person singular simple present underholes, present participle underholing, simple past and past participle underholed)

  1. To cut away or mine out the lower portion of a coal seam or a part of the underlay so as to win or get the overlying coal.

Questions about underholing

What is underholing the present participle and gerund of?
Underholing is the present participle and gerund of underhole.

Words near underholing in the dictionary

  1. underholding
  2. underholds
  3. underhole
  4. underholed
  5. underholes
  6. underholing
  7. underhonest
  8. underhood
  9. underhoof
  10. underhook
  11. underhooked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underholing (page history and authors); underhole (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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