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Hang Trail Cameras Over Scrapes Short of a corn pile or isolated water hole, the best way to take inventory of the deer in your area is by hanging cameras over large community scrapes.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
There are five water holes operated by mechanical pumps.
—Mazuba Kapambwe, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024
Grasses were green, water holes full, and creeks were flowing in several drainages throughout the Karoo.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
When the females had cubs, in contrast, males were more likely to encounter potential rivals on the edges of their territory or around water holes.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
The Maya viewed such subterranean features and water holes—like the nearby Sacred Cenote—as connections to the underworld.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2024
In an interview, Ms. Andrade Ramírez said that after close examination of a 50-foot-deep water hole in La Bocana beach, near the town of Santo Tomás, Mexican authorities found three male bodies early on Friday.
—Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 4 May 2024
Only instead of taking place in a suburban convention center, it's held in a delightfully classic, very remote tented camp in an acacia grove overlooking a water hole with a resident hippo.
—Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2024
For their experiment, the team placed camera traps and loudspeakers at water holes in the national park, which allowed the researchers to influence and record the behavior of a total of 19 mammal species.
—Daniel Lingenhöhl, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1653, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Water hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20hole. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
water hole
noun
: a natural hole or hollow containing water especially for drinking
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