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Definition of Glory hole
1. Noun. A small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship.
Definition of Glory hole
1. Noun. (mining) originally, a hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air. ¹
2. Noun. (slang sexual) a hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person. ¹
3. Noun. (slang) a military trench. ¹
4. Noun. (glassblowing) A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod ¹
5. Noun. (slang Scottish) a deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder ¹
6. Noun. (slang naval) in merchant and Royal Navy: ¹
7. Noun. An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glory Hole
Literary usage of Glory hole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1915)
"The glory hole" [From The London Daily Chronicle.] The scene of Lieutenant Smyth's
miraculous relief expedition with ten Sikh volunteer?, across 250 yards ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"Glory-hole Sloping Seventeen per cent, of the total mine tonnage for the year
1918 was obtained from glory-hole mining above the 160-ft. level. ..."
3. Fuel Oil in Industry by Stephen Osgood Andros (1920)
"glory hole Furnace. (Courtesy of Tate-Jones & Co., Inc.) ware could be manufactured.
As a rule, the higher the percentage of silica the more difficult the ..."
4. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"35. underground Glory-hole Method General. This method, also known as ... Back and
side walls of a glory hole 1 inaccessible as stoping progresses, ..."
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