Why do they call damaged places on a road or street potholes?

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Why do they call damaged places on a road or street potholes?

How on earth did they come to be called "potholes"

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?mom?:

potholes are called that because they resemble pots. The first use of the term in the
early 19th century applied to holes worn in rock by natural forces such as the motion of streams and
glaciers, and "pothole" was applied to those axle-breaking pits in roads only later, in the early 20th
century.
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