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weep hole

weep hole is the alternative form of weephole.

Meaning of weephole

Noun

weephole (plural weepholes)

  1. A small opening for drainage.
    • Repairs or replacement of rainwater downpipes and hoppers, clearing out and renewal of weep holes.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27

Forms of weep hole

pluralweep holes

Questions about weep hole

What is weep hole the alternative form of?
Weep hole is the alternative form of weephole.

Words near weep hole in the dictionary

  1. weeny-boppers
  2. weenybopper
  3. weenyboppers
  4. weep
  5. weep buckets
  6. weep hole
  7. weep holes
  8. weep in one's beer
  9. weep into one's beer
  10. weep Irish
  11. weepable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weep hole (page history and authors); weephole (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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