Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hole into which the hand may be inserted, as one near the bottom of a steam-boiler, designed to be used in cleaning the boiler, etc. It is closed by a plate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Steam Boilers) A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
- noun the cover of a hand-hole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun : A small
hole in aboiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
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Examples
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There was a very solid-looking lock on the bar, a key-operated number, too, so he couldn't just cut a hand-hole and reach in.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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This trap must be constructed with a cleaning hand-hole on the inside or house side of the trap, or on both sides, and the hand-holes are to be covered gas-tight by brass screw ferrules.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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The subsequent sealing of the small hand-hole with mud effectually closes the house against intrusion.
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The generating tank is enlarged at its base to form a sludge receptacle _E_, which is provided with a sludge draw-off cock _S_ and a hand-hole _P_.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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To each canoe it would be well to have two copper air tanks, one fore, one aft, a hand-hole in each with a water-tight screw cover on hatch.
Appendix B. The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness 1914
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The story is told that an economical and ingenious schoolmaster once wished to convert a circular table-top, for which he had no use, into seats for two oval stools, each with a hand-hole in the centre.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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For his impertinence he received such severe chastisement that he became convinced that the larger the hand-hole in the stools the more comfortable might they be.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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To each canoe it would be well to have two copper air tanks, one fore, one aft, a hand-hole in each with a water-tight screw cover on hatch.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The subsequent sealing of the small hand-hole with mud effectually closes the house against intrusion.
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