Hole vs Shanty - What's the difference?
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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.
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*(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
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*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .
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*: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.
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(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.
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#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
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#(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
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*2011 , - (We Are Young)
*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /
(lb) A container or receptacle.
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(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.
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(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
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To make holes in (an object or surface).
(by extension) To destroy.
To go or get into a hole.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
(hele)
A roughly-built hut or cabin.
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, title= * 1965 January, Stuart James, Angling?s New Gadgets'', ''(Popular Mechanics) ,
* 1999' January, Lawrence Pyne, ''In Vermont: Rental '''Shanties Give Hassle-Free Ice-Fishing'', '' ,
* 2000 , Craig A. Gilborn, Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 ,
A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
* 2003 , (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 ,
* 2005 , Stephen Codrington, Planet Geography ,
* 2009 , James E. Casto, The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 ,
(Australia, New Zealand) An unlicenced pub.
* 1881 , Henry W. Nesfield, A Chequered Career; Or, Fifteen years in Australia and New Zealand ,
(US, pejorative) Living in shanties ; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
* 1963 , William V. Shannon,
To inhabit a shanty.
A sailor?s work song.
* 1979', Stan Hugill, '''''Shanties from the Seven Seas: Shipboard Work-songs and Songs Used as Work-songs from the Great Days of Sail ,
* 1997 , Jan Ling, A History of European Folk Music ,
Hole is a related term of shanty.
As a proper noun hole
is a municipality in buskerud, norway.As a noun shanty is
a roughly-built hut or cabin or shanty can be a sailor′s work song.As an adjective shanty is
(us|pejorative) living in shanties ; poor, ill-mannered and violent or shanty can be jaunty; showy.As a verb shanty is
to inhabit a shanty.hole
English
(wikipedia hole)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unitDerived 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 holeVerb
(hol)- (Ben Jonson)
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
* holeable * holer * hole upAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----shanty
English
Etymology 1
From . * (unlicenced pub) New Zealand from 1848.Noun
(shanties)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
page 224,
- The ice fishing shanty' is not a necessity, but it does add to the comfort. A ' shanty can be any size or shape, four pieces of plywood banged together with a plywood roof, or as elaborate as one I was told about by a Minneapolis fisherman that has four rooms with gas heat and wall-to-wall carpeting.
page 78,
- The solution is to use ice-fishing shacks, called shanties' on Champlain. Every winter, veritable ' shanty towns spring up as safe ice develops, and their snug occupants harvest fresh meals of perch, pike, walleye, salmon, trout, and smelt without first being flash-frozen themselves.
page 51,
- Shanties' are the most interesting and original of early housing in the Adirondacks.Bark for roofs and even walls on occasion seems to be an attribute of the '''shanty'''. Large '''shanties''' at staging grounds in the woods included bunkhouses holding one to three dozen men, so not all ' shanties were small.
page 208,
- Shanties along canal banks and road reserves have emerged since independence in 1948 onwards, and consist of unauthorized and improvised shelter without legal rights of occupancy of the land and structures.
page 481,
- A few governments recognise the shanties' as a form of self-help housing that places very little burden upon government funds. Such governments sometimes encourage ' shanty development by providing water, electricity and garbage collection services.
page 83,
- In the hard times of the 1930s, shanty boats along the Ohio River?s banks were home to many families, who felt fortunate to have a roof over their heads even if it was not on dry land.
page 351,
- The shanty -keeper is not, as a rule, a bachelor.
Synonyms
* (roughly built hut or cabin) shack * (rudimentary dwelling) * (unlicenced pub) speakeasyDerived terms
* grog shanty * shanty back * shanty-keeper * shanty townAdjective
(-)- That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen.
- The Irish of the middle class were trying to live down the opprobrium derived from the brawling, hard-drinking, and raffish manners of the “shanty' Irish” of an earlier generation. The '''shanty''' Irish might in some instances have been the individual?s own grandmother who did, indeed, smoke a clay pipe and keep a goat in what, foty years later, became Central Park. Or ' shanty Irish might be those fellow Irish who at the turn of the century still lived in slums and were poor, hard-drinking, and contentious.
Usage notes
Applied to poor Irish immigrants, from the mid-1800s.Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) chantez, imperative of .Noun
(shanties)page 192,
- A Scot called Macmillan, a man holding a master's square-rig ticket, gave me a portion of a shanty related in tune to the foregoing, and also to the British Rolling Home .
page 41,
- Today, shanties' are a special feature of the folk music movement. The first International '''Shanty''' Festival, '''Shanty''' ?87, was held in 1987 in Krakow, Poland, with Stan Hugill, the “godfather of the '''shanty''',” in attendance (see ''Folk Roots'', September 1987, No. 51, “Hugill-Mania! Stan Hugill Godfather of the ' Shanty Mafia, Goes to Poland,” p.33ff.).