Definition of Post hole

1. Noun. A hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post.

Exact synonyms: Posthole
Generic synonyms: Hole

Lexicographical Neighbors of Post Hole

post and lintel
post box
post boxes
post card
post chaise
post count
post doc
post exchange
post festum
post game
post games
post haste
post hoc
post hoc ergo propter hoc
post hocs
post hole (current term)
post horn
post horns
post horse
post meridiem
post mold
post mortem
post mortems
post note
post notes
post oak
post oak bluff
post oak bluffs
post office
post offices

Literary usage of Post hole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"A post hole digger may be termed a tool that does its digging by being ... This made a cost of 3% cts. per post hole dug, and a cost of 75 cts. per cu. yd. ..."

2. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1904)
"Post-Hole Augers and Diggers. The right of way boundary is usually located by ... Post-hole excavators or "diggers" are much used in setting fence posts, ..."

3. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1904)
"Post-Hole Augers and Diggers. The right of way boundary is usually located by ... Post-hole excavators or "diggers" are much used in setting fence posts, ..."

4. Handbook of Construction Equipment: Its Cost and Use by Richard Turner Dana (1921)
"... are as follows Price per doz. $18.00 19.00 22.00 30.00 Fig. 256. Using Post Hole Augers to Dig Holes for Posts for Office Building, Forest Hills, ..."

5. Handbook of Railroad Expenses by James Shirley Eaton (1913)
"Postal cars, repairs of 31 Posters for advertising 55 removing from cars 89 Post hole diggers and tampers 18 Posting bills, cost of 55 Postmaster and force ..."

6. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1873)
"The action was brought to recover damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff, by reason of his stepping into a fence post-hole, ..."

7. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadionby David Gilman Romano by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"A second cutting joins t poros block with a second post hole cut into the ... A large post hole is loc ed 11.21 m. to the west of this block and may be ..."

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