Air hole
() A hole to admit or discharge air |
Air hole
() A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air |
Bore
(imp.) of Bear |
Black hole
() A dungeon or dark cell in a prison |
Bore
(v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument |
Bore
(v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus |
Bore
(v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring |
Bore
(v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness |
Bore
(v. t.) To befool |
Bore
(v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument |
Bore
(v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns |
Bore
(v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
Bore
(v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air |
Bore
(n.) A hole made by boring |
Bore
(n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. |
Bore
(n.) The size of a hole |
Bore
(n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. |
Bore
(n.) Caliber |
Bore
(n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness |
Bore
(n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. |
Bore
(n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. |
Bore
() imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
Cat-hole
(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed. |
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. |
| 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 |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
| 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 |
| 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 |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
bore
gauge caliber calibre | diameter of a tube or gun barrel |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
tidal bore
bore
eagre
aegir
eager | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
| 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 |
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 |
bore
dullard | a person who evokes boredom |
air pocket
pocket
air hole | a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly |
| hole card | any assets that are concealed until they can be used advantageously |
| hole | an unoccupied space |
fix
hole
jam
mess muddle pickle
kettle of fish | informal terms for a difficult situation, he got into a terrible fix, he made a muddle of his marriage |
| hole | a fault, he shot holes in my argument |
hibernate
hole up | sleep during winter, Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves |
| hole up | score a hole in one |
| hole | make holes in |