Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hole in a piece of lumber where a knot has dropped out or been removed.
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- noun In a piece of
lumber , a knothole is avoid left by a knot in thewood ; such holes are often convenient forpeering through when they occur in fences.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hole in a board where a knot came out
Etymologies
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Examples
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The knothole is a draw even to tourists with no affinity for baseball.
Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play Jim Carlton 2010
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This kind of problem is called a knothole, or a block of stacked characters.
On undesirable alignments DC 2007
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His perch is in the "knothole," an arched opening in the right-field wall at AT & T Park where 100 people can stroll up and watch, free of charge.
Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play Jim Carlton 2010
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Hansen paid 50 cents to get into the "knothole" section of the north end zone.
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We had a tree in our front yard which was itself something out of storybook, a big ol 'gnarly tree with a humongous rotted knothole on one side.
Boing Boing 2009
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In he limped, a scarred, brooding figure, whose powerful chilling effect on the men was diluted somewhat when his ivory leg became momentarily stuck in a knothole.
Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks Laurence Hughes 2011
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If you ask me, we need a lot more surprise knothole dioramas and little tiny wax-sealed letters in this-here junkyard world.
Boing Boing 2009
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In he limped, a scarred, brooding figure, whose powerful chilling effect on the men was diluted somewhat when his ivory leg became momentarily stuck in a knothole.
Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks Laurence Hughes 2011
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As I passed the tree, something caught my eye, something in the knothole.
Boing Boing 2009
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Tiny pictures hung on even tinier nails on the inside walls of the knothole.
Boing Boing 2009
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