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. |
Drift
(n.) A driving |
Drift
(n.) The act or motion of drifting |
Drift
(n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven |
Drift
(n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like |
Drift
(n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along |
Drift
(n.) Anything driven at random. |
Drift
(n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water |
Drift
(n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. |
Drift
(n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. |
Drift
(n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice. |
Drift
(n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river. |
Drift
(n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it |
Drift
(n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. |
Drift
(n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles. |
Drift
(n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft |
Drift
(n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time. |
Drift
(n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. |
Drift
(n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. |
Drift
(n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. |
Drift
(n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle. |
Drift
(n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven. |
Drift
(v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air |
Drift
(v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind |
Drift
(v. i.) to make a drift |
Drift
(v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. |
Drift
(v. t.) To drive into heaps |
Drift
(v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift. |
Drift
(a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted |
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 |
Rivet
(n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head |
Rivet
(v. t.) To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets |
Rivet
(v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head. |
Rivet
(v. t.) Hence, to fasten firmly |
Sight-hole
(n.) A hole for looking through |
Teaze-hole
(n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
| 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 |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
drift
heading
gallery | a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine, they dug a drift parallel with the vein |
| drift net | a large fishnet supported by floats, it drifts with the current |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| rivet | heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together |
| rivet line | a line of rivets at a seam, the fuselage cracked along the rivet line |
| 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 |
| stud rivet | ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) |
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 |
drift
purport | the pervading meaning or tenor, caught the general drift of the conversation |
drift trend
movement | a general tendency to change (as of opinion), not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book, a broad movement of the electorate to the right |
| 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 |
| drift | a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents |
| drift ice | masses of ice floating in the open sea |
| 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 |
kettle hole
kettle | (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits |
| ozone hole | an area of the ozone layer (near the poles) that is seasonally depleted of ozone |
rabbit burrow
rabbit hole | a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits |
sinkhole
sink
swallow hole | a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
| swimming hole | a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming |
| water hole | a natural hole or hollow containing water |
air pocket
pocket
air hole | a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly |
| continental drift | the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics) |
drift
impetus
impulsion | a force that moves something along |