Knothole

Definitions

1. In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are often convenient for peering through when they occur in fences.
2. Youth league baseball.
   Cincinnati, attributive

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Suomioksanreikä

Svenskaknasthålkvisthål

Examples

“Looking in the same direction, I saw⟳ that the knothole in the wall had indeed become⟳ a human eye -- a full, black eye, that glared into my own⟳ with an entire lack of expression more awful than the most devilish glitter.”

“These city-owned parks, regal concrete crowns with acres of parking lots and nary a knothole to peek through, are a definite swing⟳ away from the democratic character of the earlier ballparks.”

“Besides, there's an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexxed.”

“But he was worried that a coach of a knothole team might not like⟳ the idea and not let⟳ me switch-hit. So, my dad went to the coach.”

“I was a Cub Scout. I went to church with my family, and taught Sunday school when I was in my teens. I played knothole baseball and rooted for the Reds.”

“Poetically enough, the New Richmond knothole field is situated right next to the low, open⟳ land⟳ between the old and new highway.”

“In 1955 members organized their first baseball league; softball and knothole baseball were added later.”

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