sink-hole

See also: sinkhole

English

Noun

sink-hole (plural sink-holes)

  1. Alternative spelling of sinkhole
    • 1998, Richard O'Neill, “Big Trouble in China”, in Natural Disasters‎, Parragon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3:
      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.
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