Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post.
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- noun archaeology A
cut feature used to hold asurface timber orstone , usually much deeper than it is wide.
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- noun a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or else the truth: Sorry but zero interest in another man, they are too much work and too self-centered and they think you exist for nothing but their own personal convenience, and they can't tell a woman from a rubber blimp or their dick from a posthole digger and they guzzle up the scotch like there's no tomorrow, and they never clean out the ashes after the cozy fireside evenings.
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With his own hands he tossed what was left of her head into the posthole he'd excavated in the woods six or eight weeks earlier.
Penultimate Vampirekiller for 2012 strannikov 2012
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Once convinced that the posthole digger is finally picking up sand, I sit cross-legged at the bottom of my spider hole.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Once convinced that the posthole digger is finally picking up sand, I sit cross-legged at the bottom of my spider hole.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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The posthole digger slides in and out of the softened ground with ease.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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I fetch the brand-new posthole digger and ask the kids if they want to play in the dirt with me.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I fetch the brand-new posthole digger and ask the kids if they want to play in the dirt with me.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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The posthole digger slides in and out of the softened ground with ease.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Too much trouble to unload the posthole digger, roll of barbed wire, and assorted tools cluttered in the truck bed.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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They sunk them posts four foot deep with posthole diggers.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
skipvia commented on the word posthole
This is one of those words that doesn't immediately strike me as a compound word.
WeirdNet got this one right, at least.
December 21, 2007