ETYMOLOGY
from Middle English eorthehole, equivalent to earth + hole
EXAMPLE
“…and fro mennes wunienge to wilde deores. and ches þere crundel to halle. and eorðhole to bure bare eorðe to bedde…”
From: Old English Homilies of the Twelfth Century, by Richard Morris, 1873,
Found in MS Trinity 335 (B.14.52)
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