posthole
posthole
Definition
post·hole (pōst′hōl′)
noun
a hole dug in the ground to hold the end of an upright post
posthole
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- truncate: Feature 3014 can be interpreted as a heavily truncated posthole or small pit.
- ramp: This was a single phased, ramped posthole of the middle palisade of the main enclosure.
Adjective modifier
- small: Cut 352 was a much smaller posthole, with a single fill, 353.
- single: No structural features were found within either of the camps except a single posthole near the south entrance.
- deep: This was 4110, a large, deep posthole with a ramp on the western side.
- steep-sided: This was cut by 423, a smaller, round, steep-sided posthole with a concave base.
Modifies a noun
- structure: Iron Age settlement of perhaps a similar nature, dating to perhaps the 1st/2nd century BC is represented by a second circular posthole structure.
- group: The earliest activity probably comprised unenclosed posthole pit groups.
- cut: Evidence for contemporaneity took the form of posthole construction cuts sealed by the clay floor layers, which appeared to have abutted the posts.
- arrangement: The posthole arrangements indicate to us clues to how the structure was composed.
Browse dictionary entries near posthole
- posthaste
- postgraduate
- postglacial
- postganglionic
- postfix
- postface
- postexilic
- postern
- posterity
- posterior
- posthumous
- posthumous child
- posthypnotic
- postiche
- postilion
- postimpressionism
- postindustrial
- posting
- postliminium
- postlude
