posthole

 [pohst-hohl]  

post·hole

   [pohst-hohl]
noun
1.
a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
2.
Archaeology. an excavated hole showing by its shape and by the remains of wood or other debris that it was once filled by a post.
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Origin:
1695–1705; post1 + hole
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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posthole

noun
a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post 
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