English Explanatory Dictionary

underhole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cut away or mine out the lower portion of a coal seam or a part of the underlay so as to win or get the overlying coal.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underhole.wav

Word forms

underhole underholes underholing underholed

Etymology

From under- + hole.

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