Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, one who undercuts the coal-seam, generally for two or three feet inward (but sometimes for as much as four or even five), with a light pick, and then by driving in wedges breaks away the parts that have been holed.
- noun A ribald; a rake; a scoundrel.
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- noun one which holes,
perforates etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
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So the town hall continued to be the toilet (and it was a one holer in a historic building with cranky plumbing), the RVs continued to block the streets and no one was happy.
Charging for parking 2009
missanthropist commented on the word holer
Adulterer, libertine; from the French 'holier'.
Herbert Coleridge, Dictionary of the Oldest Words in the English Language, 1863
July 12, 2008