Air hole
() A hole to admit or discharge air |
Air hole
() A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air |
Black hole
() A dungeon or dark cell in a prison |
Cat-hole
(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed. |
Gold-hammer
(n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Hammer
(n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. |
Hammer
(n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer |
Hammer
(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. |
Hammer
(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. |
Hammer
(n.) The malleus. |
Hammer
(n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin |
Hammer
(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters |
Hammer
(v. t.) To beat with a hammer |
Hammer
(v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer |
Hammer
(v. t.) To form in the mind |
Hammer
(v. i.) To be busy forming anything |
Hammer
(v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
Hammer-beam
(n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Hammer-dressed
(a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer |
Hammer-harden
(v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state. |
Hammer-less
(a.) Without a visible hammer |
Hand-hole
(n.) A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. |
Hole
(a.) Whole. |
Hole
(n.) A hollow place or cavity |
Hole
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal |
Hole
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in |
Hole
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. |
Hole
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole. |
Peeping hole
() See Peephole. |
Pit-hole
(n.) A pit |
Sight-hole
(n.) A hole for looking through |
Teaze-hole
(n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
Tilt hammer
() A tilted hammer |
Trip hammer
() A tilt hammer. |
Water hammer
() A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer. |
Water hammer
() A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it. |
hammer
pound
hammering
pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
air hammer
jackhammer
pneumatic hammer | a hammer driven by compressed air |
| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
| ball-peen hammer | a hammer with one round and one flat end, used in working metal |
| Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bore
bore-hole
drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
| bricklayer's hammer | a hammer used in laying bricks |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
carpenter's hammer
claw hammer
clawhammer | a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails |
drop forge
drop hammer
drop press | device for making large forgings |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| electric hammer | a hammer driven by electric motor |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
foxhole
fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
| funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
glory hole
lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
| hammer | a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle, used to deliver an impulsive force by striking |
| hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
| hammer | a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate |
| hammer cock | the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled |
| hammer | a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire, used in the hammer throw |
| hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
| hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
| hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
| lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
| mallet hammer | a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. |
| mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
| nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
| smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
| tack hammer | a light hammer that is used to drive tacks |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
malleus
hammer | the ossicle attached to the eardrum |
| hammer and sickle | the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union |
| water hammer | the banging sound of steam in pipes |
| hammer throw | an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible |
| toad-in-the-hole | sausage baked in batter |
| hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
watering place
watering hole
spa | a health resort near a spring or at the seaside |
| black hole | a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star, extremely high gravitational field |
| bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
| bullet hole | a hole made by a bullet passing through it |
| gopher hole | a hole in the ground made by gophers |
| hole | an opening into or through something |
| hole hollow | a depression hollowed out of solid matter |