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wool-hole

wool-hole noun: the workhouse.

Noun

wool-hole (plural wool-holes)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) The workhouse.
    • Poor Sam's attenuated form, quite lean, and gone to grass, / Through neglecting his work-house, to the wool-hole came at last, […]1876, Printers' Circular, volume 11, page 34

Forms of wool-hole

pluralwool-holes

Questions about wool-hole

What does wool-hole mean?
Wool-hole means the workhouse.
What part of speech is wool-hole?
Wool-hole is a noun.
What is the plural of wool-hole?
The plural of wool-hole is wool-holes.

Words near wool-hole in the dictionary

  1. wool-fat
  2. wool-gather
  3. wool-gathering
  4. wool-gatherings
  5. wool-headed
  6. wool-hole
  7. wool-holes
  8. wool-pated
  9. woola
  10. Woolacombe
  11. woolah

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