Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "post-hole".
And here were the signs of it, the dappling of post-holes, the pallid oblongs of the stalls, the green fringes, and the trampled, bald paths between the booths.
He had been attaching the motor to the post-hole digger while they talked.
He rode to the springs and found them dried up, and he drove his post-hole digger deep into the ground without finding damp soil.
While he went to get the post-hole digger from his shed, I opened the carton.
Get a gasoline post-hole digger and rattle away at this like a guy making radiators.
The next morning at sunup, Adam commandeered a small empty cargo robot, stepped aboard, and directed it to the city's small-tool crib where he requisitioned a laser saw, a hatchet, a shovel, a claw hammer, a bag of six-centimeter iron nails, six coils of rope in fifty-meter coils, an augered post-hole digger, an earth tamper, a microfusion-powered (MP) motor—.
The next morning at sunup, Adam commandeered a small empty cargo robot, stepped aboard, and directed it to the city's small-tool crib where he requisitioned a laser saw, a hatchet, a shovel, a claw hammer, a bag of six-centimeter iron nails, six coils of rope in fifty-meter coils, an augered post-hole digger, an earth tamper, a microfusion-powered (MP) motor?