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What is a posthole?

What is a posthole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaeology) A cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone, usually much deeper than it is wide.
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As evidence, they highlighted the existence of a posthole near to the monument's southern entrance that would have once supported a large wooden post.
Before a totem pole went up, the host sometimes had slaves killed and thrown into the posthole.
The sides of this, as of all of them, large or small, were as smooth and hard as if made with a posthole digger or a boring tool.
In some West African cults, for example, before the central pole of a shrine or a house is installed, an animal is ritually slain, its blood being poured around the foundations and its body being put into the posthole.
Augers for sampling placers can vary from small hand-held posthole size machines up to very large truck-mounted machines.
We noticed footprints and a posthole, perhaps a stake to support a wooden structure on the water.

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