It is also commonplace for the temperature in core holes to be measured.

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Cow-occupied Vermont is touted for its ice cream so if you want to lower your core body temperature, it runs a close second to swimming holes.

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In the polar regions, even the smallest of holes in your warm clothing can have major implications on your core temperature and survival.

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In the same way, the pattern of holes in a crystal fibre can create the equivalent for light of a graphite core and a diamond cladding.

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To build up his legs, core, arm and hands, he and his brother and father would toss tires, dig holes and refill them, push wheelbarrows full of dirt, cut down trees with an ax and split wood.

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