A hole in a piece of timber where a knot has fallen out, or in a tree trunk where a branch has decayed.
（木材或树干的）节孔
Example sentencesExamples
I placed my foot onto one of the knotholes on the trunk and hoisted myself up.
Discreet knotholes in the wood provided excellent openings for eavesdropping.
I'd been hoping there might be a knothole on the inside wall that would give me a view down over the classroom.
I could clearly see the bark, knotholes, even trunk rings in the petrified stumps - an indication of the growth of the trees in spring and summer.
Somehow, it reminds me of when I was a kid, sitting in church, bored, staring at the pine wood ceiling, counting or looking for patterns in the knotholes.
Rhymes
pothole
Definition of knothole in US English:
knothole
nounˈnɑthoʊlˈnäthōl
A hole in a piece of timber where a knot has fallen out, or in a tree trunk where a branch has decayed.
（木材或树干的）节孔
Example sentencesExamples
I could clearly see the bark, knotholes, even trunk rings in the petrified stumps - an indication of the growth of the trees in spring and summer.
Discreet knotholes in the wood provided excellent openings for eavesdropping.
I'd been hoping there might be a knothole on the inside wall that would give me a view down over the classroom.
Somehow, it reminds me of when I was a kid, sitting in church, bored, staring at the pine wood ceiling, counting or looking for patterns in the knotholes.
I placed my foot onto one of the knotholes on the trunk and hoisted myself up.