highhole

American  

[hahy-hohl] / ˈhaɪˌhoʊl /

Also highholder

noun

1. flicker.

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Etymology

Origin of highhole

1785–95; earlier highwale, hewhole, variant of hickwall

Example Sentences

A highhole alights on the ground in full view in the orchard twenty yards away, and, spying my motionless figure, pauses and regards me long and intently.

From The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers by Burroughs, John

He tells of the highhole that repeatedly drills through the clap-boards of an empty house in a vain attempt to find a thickness of wood deep enough in which to build its nest. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack

Probably the warble of the robin, or the call of the meadowlark or of the highhole, if they chanced to hear them, meant no more to these girls.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

But the swallow was familiar, and the robin and the wren and the highhole, while the woodchuck I saw and heard in Wyoming might have been the "chuck" of my native hills.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

Under unusual circumstances it still does the usual thing, wherefore the highhole perforating the ice-house is guilty of lunacy—of unreason, in short. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack