sink-hole

A form of sinkhole — A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.

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Meanings

nounsink-hole (plural sink-holes)

plural sink-holes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sinkhole.
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    The violence of the quake hurled people 2m (6ft) into the air, and within a matter of seconds 95 per cent of Tang-shan had collapsed into rubble. The earth split open into wide fissures and thousands of sink-holes, trees were uprooted and railroad tracks buckled. Amazingly, coal-miners working in the solid rock deep below Tang-shan survived the violent shaking that razed the city above them.

    1998, Richard O'Neill, “Big Trouble in China”, in Natural Disasters, Parragon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3
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