vent-hole

When ex-huzbin#2 an I started werkin awn teh trayler, hiz fut gotted stuk inna vent-hole dat wuz inna floor.

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I know not what vent-hole daylight habitually illumined his soul.

Les Miserables 2008

Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell!

Les Miserables 2008

And Peronella, looking in at the vent-hole, where the

The Decameron 2004

Half-naked gunners, sweat glistening on their skins, leaped to sponge out the vast barrels while the gun's chief stopped the vent-hole with a leather-encased thumb.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

With a gentleness that was surprising in such a huge man, and with a tenacity Sharpe had seen before in the Irishman, Harper was using a narrow-bladed awl to dig the iron spike, scrap by bright scrap, out of the vent-hole.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

The chaunter had seven finger-holes and a vent-hole in front, and a thumb-hole at the back.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The Hotteterre chaunter, known as le _petit chalumeau_, had six keys, whereas the _grand chalumeau_ had seven, besides eight finger-holes and a vent-hole in the bell.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

I've caught a look in his eyes, when he's been down on his hands and knees, staring into some infernal vent-hole -- a look that is -- well, uncanny, as if he were peering into the bowels of the earth for something quite outside the conceptions of science.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

To add to the mischief, owing to my collaborator's evenings being largely taken up by other work, seven-eighths of the book came to be written by me, though the leading ideas were, of course, threshed out and the whole revised in common, and thus it became a vent-hole for all the ferment of a youth of twenty-one, whose literary faculty had furthermore been pent up for years by the potential censorship of a committee.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various