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Narrower term 31

Air hole 76% connected

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

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Aperture 76% connected

The act of opening.

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Armhole 76% connected

The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.

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Blowhole 76% connected

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty…

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Bunghole 76% connected

See Bung, n., 2.

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Burrow 76% connected

An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

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Buttonhole 76% connected

The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

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Cavity 76% connected

Hollowness.

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Countersink 76% connected

To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, e…

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Cranny 76% connected

A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

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Cup 76% connected

A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, c…

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Eye 76% connected

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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Eyehole 76% connected

A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

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Eyelet 76% connected

A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

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Hawse 76% connected

A hawse hole.

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Kettle 76% connected

A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

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Keyhole 76% connected

A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.

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Leak 76% connected

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

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Loophole 76% connected

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an en…

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Manhole 76% connected

A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

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Mortise 76% connected

A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.

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Peephole 76% connected

A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.

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Perforation 76% connected

The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.

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Pit 76% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Pore 76% connected

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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Pothole 76% connected

A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natur…

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Puncture 76% connected

The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

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Tunnel 76% connected

A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a fun…

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Vent 76% connected

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

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Venthole 76% connected

A touchhole; a vent.

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Wormhole 76% connected

A burrow made by a worm.

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Broader term 13

Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Depression 76% connected

The act of depressing.

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Difficulty 76% connected

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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Fault 76% connected

Defect; want; lack; default.

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Flaw 76% connected

A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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Gap 76% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Hollow 76% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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Synonym 10

Fix 92% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Gob 92% connected

Same as Goaf.

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Hollow 92% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Jam 92% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Maw 92% connected

A gull.

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Mess 92% connected

Mass; church service.

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Muddle 92% connected

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

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Pickle 92% connected

See Picle.

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Trap 92% connected

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

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Yap 92% connected

To bark; to yelp.

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