"knothole" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "knot + hole.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1893, Ambrose Bierce, Can Such Things Be, archived from the original on 2014-08-11",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1987, Richard Miller, Gregory L. Rhodes, “The Life and Times of the Old Cincinnati Ballparks”, in Queen City Heritage, volume 45, number 2, Cincinnati Historical Society, pages 25–41",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 836",
          "text": "Besides, there's an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexxed.",
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        "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."
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          "wood"
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          "peering",
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "sense": "hole in fence providing a look",
          "word": "peephole"
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
          "word": "oksanreikä"
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          "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
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          "word": "Astloch"
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          "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "poll cranra"
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          "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "kvisthål"
        },
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          "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "ref": "1976, Pete Rose with Bob Hertzel, quoting Pete Rose, Pete Rose's winning baseball, H. Regnery Co., page 10",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1993 March, Michael Graham, quoting Rob Portman, “Mr. Portman Goes to Washington”, in Cincinnati, page 32",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1998 September, Lonnie Wheeler, “The river runs through it”, in Cincinnati, page 151",
          "text": "Poetically enough, the New Richmond knothole field is situated right next to the low, open land between the old and new highway.",
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          "ref": "2009, Robin Caraway, “Bellevue Vets”, in Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool, editors, The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, via Issuu, page 79",
          "text": "In 1955 members organized their first baseball league; softball and knothole baseball were added later.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Youth league baseball."
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        "(Cincinnati, sports, attributive) Youth league baseball."
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Besides, there's an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexxed.",
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        "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."
      ],
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 March, Michael Graham, quoting Rob Portman, “Mr. Portman Goes to Washington”, in Cincinnati, page 32",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 September, Lonnie Wheeler, “The river runs through it”, in Cincinnati, page 151",
          "text": "Poetically enough, the New Richmond knothole field is situated right next to the low, open land between the old and new highway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Robin Caraway, “Bellevue Vets”, in Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool, editors, The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, via Issuu, page 79",
          "text": "In 1955 members organized their first baseball league; softball and knothole baseball were added later.",
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        }
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        "Youth league baseball."
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
      "word": "oksanreikä"
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      "word": "Astloch"
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      "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
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      "word": "poll cranra"
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      "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "void left by a knot in the wood",
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  "word": "knothole"
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