Pothole
[pot-hohl] /ˈpɒtˌhoʊl/
noun
1.
a deep ; pit.
2.
a formed in pavement, as by excessive use or by extremes of weather.
3.
a more or less cylindrical formed in rock by the grinding action of the detrital material in eddying water.
4.
a cave opening vertically from the ground surface.
/ˈpɒtˌhəʊl/
noun
1.
(geography)
2.
a deep hole, esp one produced in a road surface by wear or weathering
n.
also pot-hole, 1826, originally a geological feature in glaciers and gravel beds, from Middle English pot “a deep hole for a mine, or from peat-digging” (late 14c.), now generally obsolete, but preserved in Scotland and northern England dialect; perhaps ultimately related to pot (n.1) on notion of “deep, cylindrical shape.” Applied to a hole in a road from 1909.
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