How to pronounce hold

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What hold means

noun

Most people know hold in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

The space inside a ship where cargo is stored

In a sentence: Sailors lowered the crates of bananas down into the ship's hold.

Where it comes from: It started out as hole, the hollow inside a ship, and changed to hold because of the word hold. So it is a different word from hold, to keep in your hands.

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