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cradle hole en · NOUN
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A sunken part in a road, caused by thawing, or by vehicles traveling over a soft spot.
Bang, bang! went the first sleigh over a cradle hole in the snow of the road, and each of the other sleighs jolted in the same way, and rudely breaking the frost bound stillness, the troykas began to speed along the road, one after the other.
1952, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, War and Peace, Book 7 Chapter 10:
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