Definition of Bolt-hole

1. Noun. A hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den.

Generic synonyms: Hole

Definition of Bolt-hole

1. Noun. a means of escape ¹

2. Noun. a place of escape or secret refuge ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bolt-hole

bolshiest
bolshy
bolson
bolsons
bolster
bolster finger
bolster up
bolstered
bolsterer
bolsterers
bolstering
bolsters
bolt
bolt-action
bolt-actions
bolt-hole (current term)
bolt-holes
bolt-on
bolt-rope
bolt-ropes
bolt action
bolt actions
bolt bucket
bolt buckets
bolt circle
bolt cutter
bolt cutters
bolt down
bolt from the blue
bolt of lightning

Literary usage of Bolt-hole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1862)
"Large wooden boxes, or " air trows" (troughs), would be placed across each bolt-hole, to restore the air current after the bolt-holes had been driven. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"Whenever the bolt hole is cut through, the work is opened up by driving a ... At the sides of this gallery next the bolt-hole, each miner breaks off in ..."

3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"Whenever the bolt hole is cut through, the work is opened up by ... At the sides of this gallery next the bolt-hole, each miner breaks off in succession a ..."

4. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"3234 is a hook-bolt, which is used when one piece is too small to have a bolt-hole through it, or when it is objectionable to weaken the piece by a ..."

5. A Text-book of Elementary Foundry Practice: For the Use of Students in by William Allyn Richards (1910)
"Setting Bolt Hole Core and Core below the Surface. Pattern: bracket. Cores: core and filling piece combined (pocket core), b, Fig. 72, and short cylindrical ..."

6. A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and by Alexander Lyman Holley (1865)
"near left-centre bolt, bulged the plate into masonry in area 6 in. by 7 in.; two cracks from the bolt-hole. 27. Hit close to No. ..."

7. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and by Samuel James Pope Thearle (1876)
"The joint of the two thicknesses of plating behind armour in the bolt hole fs iron-caulked, and oakum is driven in between the backing and plating just ..."

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