finger hole

Questions about finger hole

What does finger hole mean?

finger hole means "one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is finger hole a common word?

finger hole is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.