verb
- to hollow out; to excavate or scoop out the interior of something
Usage: archaic; chiefly British dialect
noun
- a hollow or cavity; a hole or depression in a surface
Usage: archaic; chiefly British dialect
Examples
- The woodcarver began to holk out the block of oak.
- Water had holked a deep channel in the riverbed over centuries.
- The tree trunk had a large holk where the branch had fallen.
- They holked the pumpkin to prepare it for carving.
- The storm left a holk in the hillside where the earth had washed away.