shot hole

noun
a condition in plants in which small, rounded spots drop out of the leaves, appearing as if the leaves were riddled by shot, resulting from infection or injury.

Origin:
1795–1805

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shot hole
 
n
a drilled hole into which explosive is put for blasting

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Shot hole is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.
Example sentences
Many orchards were being treated to prevent shot hole disease.
The tee shot here will determine whether this is a two or three-shot hole.
One shot hole line crosses the parcel with one shot hole.
Ziram and copper- based pesticides are effective for leaf curl and shot hole
  disease, and ziram also controls scab.
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