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Definition of Loopholing
1. loophole [v] - See also: loophole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loopholing
Literary usage of Loopholing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book for Active Service: Containing Practical Instructions in Campaign by Egbert Ludovicus Viele (1861)
"Walls are made available for the purposes of defence by loopholing them ; if a
... The quickest way of loopholing a wall is to break it down from the top in ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The barricades should bo sufficient to resist field artillery, and high enough
not to be easily surmounted ; and they ought to be flanked by loopholing the ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"Investing the place closely, and taking- post in a new house close to the ditch
of the castle, Trenck broke down the back walls of the house, and loopholing ..."
4. A History of the Dakota Or Sioux Indians: From Their Earliest Traditions and by Doane Robinson (1904)
"There were a number of brick buildings outside of the barricade which the whites
kept possession of and loopholing them, were enabled to keep the Indians at ..."
5. The Military Unpreparedness of the United States: A History of American Land by Frederic Louis Huidekoper (1915)
"... and was rendered more so by blockhouses, a stone fort, and entrenchments cut
in solid rock, and the loopholing of a solidly built stone church. ..."
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