穴

posthole (archaeology)

gang; group

Idiomatic expression; Noun or verb acting prenominally

small-minded; petty; cowardly; chicken-hearted

finger hole (on a flute, bowling ball, etc.)

being buried in the same grave

splendid garden eel (Gorgasia preclara); orange-barred garden eel

Colloquial

bell-mouth spillway; morning glory spillway; glory hole spillway

pilot hole; rough hole; prepared hole

Idiomatic expression

to have a narrow view of things; to peek at the sky through the eye of a needle

a burn hole

Architecture

mortice; mortise

anus; asshole; arsehole

clearance hole (hole for a bolt, screw, etc., which is large enough to allow the thread, etc. to pass through)

Proverb

to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell

Proverb

a small leak will sink a great ship

Geology

blowhole

Proverb

a small leak will sink a great ship

dark hole

idiot; fool

Historical term; Abbreviation

road taken by a Chinese ajari buddhist monk when he incurred the wrath of emperor Genso (685-762)

storage pit (esp. Jomon to Yayoi periods)

Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine

tunnel tomb (Kofun period)

flat or stone broke

Proverb

out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den

needle with a normal eye