"starting hole" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See start (“to cause to flee”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starting holes",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act XXIV, scene iv]:",
          "text": "What trick? what deuice? what starting hole canst thou now find out, to hide thee from this open and apparant shame.",
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          "ref": "1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [R. Robinson] for William Iones […], →OCLC, [Act II]:",
          "text": "Advaunce your standard Edward in the field,\nAnd march to fire them from their starting holes.\nA willow lies.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A loophole."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A loophole."
      ],
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          "ref": "1613, William Browne, “The Fifth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 102:",
          "text": "Whilſt furiouſly all vp and downe doth ſwimme\nTh'inſnared Fiſh, here on the toppe doth ſcud,\nThere vnderneath the banckes, then in the mud;\nAnd with his franticke fits ſo ſcares the ſhole,\nThat each one takes his hyde, or ſtarting hole;",
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      "glosses": [
        "A place used to hide, or evade pursuit."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A place used to hide, or evade pursuit."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see starting, hole."
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          "starting",
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        [
          "hole",
          "hole#English"
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  "word": "starting hole"
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  "etymology_text": "See start (“to cause to flee”).",
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          "text": "What trick? what deuice? what starting hole canst thou now find out, to hide thee from this open and apparant shame.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [R. Robinson] for William Iones […], →OCLC, [Act II]:",
          "text": "Advaunce your standard Edward in the field,\nAnd march to fire them from their starting holes.\nA willow lies.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A loophole."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A loophole."
      ],
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          "text": "Whilſt furiouſly all vp and downe doth ſwimme\nTh'inſnared Fiſh, here on the toppe doth ſcud,\nThere vnderneath the banckes, then in the mud;\nAnd with his franticke fits ſo ſcares the ſhole,\nThat each one takes his hyde, or ſtarting hole;",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place used to hide, or evade pursuit."
      ],
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        ],
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        "(obsolete) A place used to hide, or evade pursuit."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see starting, hole."
      ],
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}