Definitions
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- noun drilling A hole, very deep but only a few inches wide, which is used to drop
explosives beneath theEarth 's surface to easepetroleum extraction.
Etymologies
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shot + hole
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Examples
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A half smile flitted over the pale face, the other hand groped at the breast of his blue shirt and slowly drew forth a packet, stained and dripping with the blood that welled slowly from a shothole in the broad white breast.
Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888
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With the blood welling from a shothole in his broad, burly chest and the seal of death already settling on his ashen brow, he was scowling up into the half-compassionate, half-contemptuous faces about him.
Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Charles King 1888
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