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Definition of Airholes
1. airhole [n] - See also: airhole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airholes
Literary usage of Airholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"Similarly, when the wall is brought up to the top, leave airholes there. ...
Both at the bottom and at the top above the vaulting they should have airholes. ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"Similarly, when the wall is brought up to the top, leave airholes there. ...
Both at the bottom and at the top above the vaulting they should have airholes. ..."
3. Sidon: A Study in Oriental History by Frederick Carl Eiselen (1907)
"Vaulted grottoes with side niches for the sarcophagi, or merely with square holes
in the ground, and with airholes communicating ..."
4. Modern Inorganic Chemistry by Joseph William Mellor (1912)
"... ut airholes of Buii-ii'ii'iI Iunior. i In the Bunsen's burner, the proportion
of air ... 296. it will be seen that the airholes are larger than usual, ..."
5. Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine (1883)
"This little extra tx- | pense should not be spared, for it is by no means yet
proved whether airholes alone will preserve the boarding; moreover, ..."
6. Tʻoung pao by Demiéville, Paul, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak, Henri Cordier, Paul Pelliot, Edouard Chavannes, Gustaaf Schlegel (1890)
"Upon the section is seen a white, fleshy outer-rind, with airholes running ...
Between these last cells are found the above-mentioned airholes running in a ..."
7. Pacific Educational Journal by California Dept. of Public Instruction (1888)
"Hind airholes, rings. Next teach the changes, the egg, the larva, the pupa and
the adult. Xt is just as easy to say larva as to say elephant. ..."
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