waterhole

Definitions

1. A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink.
2. A watering hole; a place where people meet to drink and talk.
   informal
3. A part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quiet in terms of radio astronomy.

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Examples

“From habit the sheep would head for the river, but, though it was early spring⟳, the winter had been droughty, and the river was only a string of dangerous water-holes.”

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