hollow
/ˈhɑloʊ/ noun B2- A small valley between mountains. · He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.· c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter Forests grew upon the barren hollows.
- A sunken area on a surface. · He held the chick in the hollow of his hand.
- An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. · a hollow in a tree trunk
- A feeling of emptiness. · a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach
Plural hollows
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A VERY HUNGRY FOX, seeing some bread and meat left by shepherds in the hollow of an oak, crept into the hole and made a hearty meal.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk.
The Cock, suspecting his civilities, said: “Sir, I wish you would do me the favour of going around to the hollow trunk below me, and waking my porter, so that he may open the door and let you in.” When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him, and tore him to pieces.
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