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hol

  • noun [ neuter ]
  • adjective
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hol, a hole.
Wright's OE grammar
§106; §344; §425;
Add: and holl. [It is not always possible to distinguish between forms that belong to hol and those that belong to holh ; some of those here given to the former may belong to the latter.]
a cave, pit, deep place in water
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  • Hool

    vorago

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 124, 13.

  • Hol cava (or adj. ?), 129, 63, Hola

    speleo, spelunca.

      An. Ox. 2047.

  • Holum caverniculis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 32: 13, 59: cavernis, 22, II. On holum

    in antris

    ,
      46, 4.

  • Þá iermingas út of þǽm holan crupon þe heó on lutedan,

      Ors. 2, 8; S. 92, 30.

  • Holu

    cavernas

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 52 : 129, 66.

  • Seó grundleáse swelgend hæfþ manegn wéste holu on tó gadrianne,

      Bt. 7, 4 ; F. 22, 33 . ¶
    the word occurs in local names :-- Bulan hol, C. D. v. 43, 8.

  • Of ðǽre stánhlǽwe innan ðan hwítan hole; of ðám hwítan hole intó ðám reádan hole; of ðám reádan hole intó ðám dunnan hole; of ðám dunnan hole,

      253, 1-4.

  • On ðá æaldan hola; of ðám holum,

      112, 34.

  • Haec sunt nomma pastuum porcorum . . . Húnbealding hola, i. 258, 10. I a. a hole made to live in by an animal,

    burrow

    :-- Of oteres hole,
      C. D. iii. 418, 17.

  • Foxas holas (holo, R.) habbað

    uulpes foueas habent

    ,
      Lk. L. 9, 58.
  • Holo, p. 6, 12.
a den used to keep animals in
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  • Hola cabearum (patefactis

    cavearum

    clustellis.
      Ald. 49, 3), An. Ox. 3560.
an aperture passing through anything; a pore
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  • Hol

    spiramentum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 6.
Similar entries
v. brocc-hol, fox-hol, lifer-hol, stán-hol, wulf-hol; holh.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hol.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/52934.

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  • hol, n.; adj.

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