airhole
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hole provided for ventilation or breathing.
noun
An air pocket.
Example Sentences
- ""This wall is badly built," he went on in a careless tone; "look, there is another space there at the back;" and he actually came up to it and held the lantern close to the airhole in such fashion that its light shone through into Jess's eyes and nearly blinded her."
- "For if they touch one another, and so do not leave airholes and admit draughts of air to blow between them, they get heated and soon begin to rot."
- "The youngest son, Vardaman, is unable to cope with Addie's death and drills airholes in her coffin (and accidentally into her head) and insistently declares, "My mother is a fish"--like the big one he recently caught and gutted."
- "Through these and through countless airholes, the water began to sweep across the surface of the ice, and by the time he pulled into a woodchopper's cabin on the point of an island, the dogs were being rushed off their feet and were swimming more often than not."
- ""Even if it is hard enough, there may be airholes around.""