Cradle hole

a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot.

See also: Cradle

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in classic literature

went the first sleigh over a cradle hole in the snow of the road, and each of the other sleighs jolted in the same way, and rudely breaking the frost-bound stillness, the troykas began to speed along the road, one after the other.

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