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wool-holes

wool-holes is the plural of wool-hole.

Meaning of wool-hole

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

Questions about wool-holes

What is wool-holes the plural of?
Wool-holes is the plural of wool-hole.

Words near wool-holes in the dictionary

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

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