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 |
-blast
() A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation |
Blast
(n.) A violent gust of wind. |
Blast
(n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace |
Blast
(n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire |
Blast
(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument |
Blast
(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants |
Blast
(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast
(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep. |
Blast
(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind |
Blast
(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail |
Blast
(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din. |
Blast
(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast
(v. i.) To be blighted or withered |
Blast
(v. i.) To blow |
Blast pipe
() The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. |
Cat-hole
(n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed. |
Clay
(n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. |
Clay
(n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body |
Clay
(v. t.) To cover or manure with clay. |
Clay
(v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. |
Clay-brained
(a.) Stupid. |
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. |
Hot blast
() See under Blast. |
Peeping hole
() See Peephole. |
Pipe clay
() A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments. |
Pit-hole
(n.) A pit |
Sight-hole
(n.) A hole for looking through |
Stemming
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stem |
Tamping
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamp |
Tamping
(n.) The act of one who tamps |
Tamping
(n.) The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. |
Teaze-hole
(n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
Whirl-blast
(n.) A whirling blast or wind. |
| blast | a very long fly ball |
solo homer
solo blast | a home run with no runners on base |
| 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 |
| blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
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 |
| clay pigeon | target used in skeet or trapshooting |
| clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
| 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 |
mold mould molding moulding modeling
clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding |
| 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 |
tamp
tamper
tamping bar | a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
cadaver
corpse
stiff
clay
remains | the dead body of a human being, the cadaver was intended for dissection, the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse, the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river, honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
stemmer
stemming algorithm | an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem |
fire
attack
flak
flack
blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
good time
blast | a highly pleasurable or exciting experience, we had a good time at the party, celebrating after the game was a blast |
shock wave
blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
bang
clap
eruption blast bam | a sudden very loud noise |
| blast | an explosion (as of dynamite) |
| bomb blast | the explosion of a bomb |
backblast
back-blast | backfire from a recoilless weapon |
| 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 |