posthole
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊstˌhoʊl/
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hoyo para poste
- Finally, near the end of the dig, the team found a posthole that once held a one-foot-square hewn timber.
- digging postholes
Examples
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How do postholes help support a structure?
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However, the Southern Circle's enormous postholes—an estimated 166 set in six rings—were particularly well preserved.
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Looks like someone used a posthole digger.
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"At first we thought they must be postholes or something," says Wood.
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Each one proved to be right on target, revealing five storehouse postholes just as the map predicted.
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There was also a possibility that postholes from the 1612 foundation would be there, since it is closer to the church's altar.
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Schmidt recently discovered a series of postholes that run 130 feet through the Lagina site and probably represent a palisade built later in its history.
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The archaeologists didn't find much, but they were able to document Neolithic postholes that formed a circle with a diameter of 138 feet.
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The term "henge" was first used independently of its stone namesake in 1926, when archaeologists excavated an unusual arrangement of postholes two miles northeast of Stonehenge.
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One of the most challenging parts of installing a fence is digging all those postholes.
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Etymology
The word posthole is simply two words joined: post, a 'pole' or 'stake' used in a fence, and hole, a 'hole' in the ground. So a posthole is the hole you dig to put a post in, which helps keep the fence upright.