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Definition of Hole out
1. Verb. Hit the ball into the hole.
Category relationships: Golf, Golf Game
Generic synonyms: Hit
Derivative terms: Hole
Definition of Hole out
1. Verb. (intransitive) (golf) To complete a hole by sinking the ball. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hole Out
Literary usage of Hole out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon (1908)
"A competitor shall hole out with his own ball at every hole, under penalty of
disqualification. But if it be discovered, before he has struck off from the ..."
2. Scarronides, or Virgil travestie, a mock poem, on the first and fourth books by Charles Cotton (1804)
"Bounce, cries the Port-hole, out they fly, And make the World dance Barnaby;
Throughout the Seas and Coasts they wander^ One Boreas was their chief ..."
3. Bookbinding for Beginners by Florence Ordway Bean, John C. Brodhead (1914)
"Pass the thread in through the first hole (leaving an end long enough for tying),
out through the second hole, over the tape, in through the third hole, out ..."
4. Practical Golf by Walter J. Travis (1901)
"If an opponent consider (i) that his own ball, if left, might be of assistance
to the player, he is entitled to lift it, or hole out at his discretion; ..."
5. Taylor on Golf: Impressions, Comments & Hints by John Henry Taylor (1905)
"If a player consider that an opponent's ball on the putting-green might interfere
with his stroke he may require the opponent either to lift or to hole out ..."
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