p 3 o 1 t 1 h 4 o 1 l 1 e 1
7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)
originFrom dialectal pot (“pit, hollow, cavity”) + hole. The "cave" senses, attested since at least 1809 (as pot-hole), may be from Middle English pot, potte (“a deep hole for a mine, or from peat-digging”), of uncertain origin; perhaps related to English pit, pote, or pot. Compare Scots pott, patt (“a pit dug in the ground; coalpit”).
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