knothole

IPA: nˈɑthoʊɫ

In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are often convenient for peering through when they occur in fences.
(Cincinnati, sports, attributive) Youth league baseball.

Examples of "knothole" in Sentences

The knothole is a draw even to tourists with no affinity for baseball.
As I passed the tree, something caught my eye, something in the knothole.
This kind of problem is called a knothole, or a block of stacked characters.
Tiny pictures hung on even tinier nails on the inside walls of the knothole.
Hansen paid 50 cents to get into the "knothole" section of the north end zone.
If you ask me, we need a lot more surprise knothole dioramas and little tiny wax-sealed letters in this-here junkyard world.
We had a tree in our front yard which was itself something out of storybook, a big ol 'gnarly tree with a humongous rotted knothole on one side.
His perch is in the "knothole," an arched opening in the right-field wall at AT & T Park where 100 people can stroll up and watch, free of charge.
In he limped, a scarred, brooding figure, whose powerful chilling effect on the men was diluted somewhat when his ivory leg became momentarily stuck in a knothole.