“hole” – English explanatory dictionary

noun an opening or a space in something ○ You’ve got a hole in your sock. ○ We all peeped through the hole in the fence. ○ Rabbits live in holes in the ground.

(hol), a. Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

n. [OE. hol, hole, AS. hol, hole, cavern, from hol, a., hollow; akin to D. hol, OHG. hol, G. hohl, Dan. huul hollow, hul hole, Sw. hål, Icel. hola; prob. from the root of AS. helan to conceal. See Hele, Hell, and cf. Hold of a ship.]
1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. “The holes where eyes should be.” Shak. “The blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes.” Tennyson. “The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.” 2 Kings xii. 9.
2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. Dryden. “The foxes have holes, … but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” Luke ix. 58. Syn. — Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell. Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] ´The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery.´ Dickens. — Hole board (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; — called also compass board.

v. t. [AS. holian. See Hole, n.]
1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. Chapman.
2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

v. i. To go or get into a hole. B. Jonson.