Hole vs Cauf - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hole and cauf

is that hole is a hollow spot in a surface while cauf is a chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water or cauf can be (calf).

As a verb hole

is to make holes in (an object or surface).

hole

English

(wikipedia hole)

Noun

(en noun)

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.

*(Bible), 2 (w) xii.9:

*:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the holes where eyes should be

* (1809-1892)

*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .

*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

#An opening in a solid.

(lb) In games.

#(lb) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.

#(lb) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

#(lb) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

#(lb) A card (also called a hole card ) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.

An excavation pit or trench.

(lb) A weakness, a flaw

*2011 , - (We Are Young)

*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /

(lb) A container or receptacle.

(lb) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

(lb) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

(lb) An orifice, in particular the anus.

Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

(lb) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Synonyms

* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit

Derived terms

* ace in the hole * arsehole, asshole * black hole * bolthole * bullet hole * burn a hole in one's pocket * button hole * cakehole * countersunk hole * cubby hole * donut hole * dry hole * electron hole * fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole * glory hole * gnamma hole {{rel-mid3} * gunk-hole * hellhole * hole in one * hole-in-the-wall * hole punch * hole state * holey * in the hole * keyhole * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * loophole * man-hole, manhole * mouse-hole, mousehole * nineteenth hole * pesthole * pigeonhole * pilot hole * poophole * pothole * pritchel hole * rathole * sink hole * sound hole * toad-in-the-hole * top-hole * touch hole * watering hole * white hole * wonky hole

Verb

(hol)

To make holes in (an object or surface).

(by extension) To destroy.

To go or get into a hole.

(Ben Jonson)

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

(hele)

Derived terms

* holeable * holer * hole up

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words ----

cauf

English

Etymology 1

Originally a misspelling of , of which (term) remains a homophone. (rfimage)

Noun

(cauves)

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

* 1926 : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports , volume 2, unknown page (Executive Committee)

The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.

References

* Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language, Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue'', by (1662?; in 1670 Ed.)
''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “ †cauf]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

Etymology 2

Phonetic respelling.

Noun

(cauves)

* 1845 : Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day , pages 40–41

An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves , six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.

References

* Publications of the English Dialect Society, volume 52 (1886), page 26]
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----