Meaning & use
Holing
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Making, sinking, or driving something into a hole, especially hitting a golf ball into the hole, or cutting a channel beneath a coal seam for mining.
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She celebrated after holing a tricky fifteen-foot putt on the final green.
Miners spent hours holing beneath the seam before the coal face could be brought down.
A note on using this word
In golf, "holing out" means completing a hole by sinking the ball; the older mining sense refers to undercutting coal with a pick or machine.
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