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