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Potholes
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
pothole
also pot-hole, 1826, originally a geological feature in glaciers and gravel beds, from M.E. pot in sense of "a deep hole for a mine, or from peat-digging" (late 14c., sense now generally obsolete, but preserved in Scotland and northern England dialect); perhaps ultimately related to
EXPAND pot (1) on notion of "deep, cylindrical shape." Applied to holes in a road from 1909.
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