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A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
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A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.
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Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.
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A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
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A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
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To go or get into a hole.
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A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.
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A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
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To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
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To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.
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A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.
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A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
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One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.
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A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
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To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
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A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
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A hole for looking through; a peephole.
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Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.
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