foothole
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hole in a cricket pitch made by the bowler's foot during the runup.
noun
A foothold.
Example Sentences
- "The 24-year-old, who made three one-day appearances against Australia last summer, injured his ankle on Wednesday and further damaged it yesterday when he slipped in the footholes."
- ""The wicket didn't play too bad today. Day five is going to be the biggest worry. The footholes will get bigger as the day goes on.""
- "They floundered into deep footholes at every step."
- "Wherever there were tracks of children, sleds, large dogs, other couples, or a solitary walker with long, steady paces, these footholes had filled with a veneer of ice."
- "The trees of the region were fearsomely marked with large footholes scratched by a giant feline animal, and once they saw at a distance a striped creature like a hyena with the markings of a tiger."
- "With each step her leg sunk up to the knee. When she pulled her boots back out again she tinged her own footholes with red-brown mud, like the edging of blood around a punctured bandage."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
footholes (plural)
foot hole (alternative)