Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as swallow, 5, and sink-hole.

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Examples

  • Now and then he passed by a deep dark swallow-hole, going down into the earth, as if it was the chimney of some dwarfs house underground; and more than once, as he passed, he could hear water falling, trickling, tinkling, many many feet below.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • Now and then he passed by a deep dark swallow-hole, going down into the earth, as if it was the chimney of some dwarfs house underground; and more than once, as he passed, he could hear water falling, trickling, tinkling, many many feet below.

    The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Now and then he passed by a deep dark swallow-hole, going down into the earth, as if it was the chimney of some dwarf's house underground; and more than once, as he passed, he could hear water falling, trickling, tinkling, many many feet below.

    The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847

  • But how is the swallow-hole sure to end in a cave?

    Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

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