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Holing vs Doling - What's the difference?

holing | doling |

As verbs the difference between holing and doling

is that holing is present participle of hole while doling is present participle of dole.

As nouns the difference between holing and doling

is that holing is undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass while doling is the act of one who doles.

holing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    See (hole) a hollow, and (-ing).

    Noun

  • (mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass
    • (Raymond)

    doling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who doles.
  • * 1869 , Catholic World (volume 8, page 712)
    • Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.