swallow hole

1. 1.

   a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof

   Synonymssinkholesink

   Broadernatural depression

Questions about swallow hole

What does swallow hole mean?

swallow hole means "a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof".

What is another word for swallow hole?

Close synonyms include sinkhole, sink. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swallow hole a common word?

swallow hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.