[f. SOAK v.] a. Austr. An enclosed place in a stream, used for sheep-washing. b. A hole into or from which water, etc., soaks or drains away.
1881. A. C. Grant, Bush-Life Queensland, I. 82. Parallel poles … forming square soak-holes. Ibid. A stage was built, from which the sheep could be allowed to slide easily into the water of the first soak-hole.
1883. Almondbury Gloss., 124. The holes where it [sc. liquid manure] collects in the yard are called soak-hoils.
