sweat hole
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large hole in the ground, heated with a fire, into which a sick person is brought wrapped in blankets (once the fire is removed), with a jug of water for making steam, the whole covered by an awning to hold the steam in; an underground sweat lodge.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes."
- ""[…] if the sweat were found, to all appearance, to flow less freely through the supposed sweat-holes than elsewhere"."
- "On the lake shore were some other camping places that had been used within a few months and at one of them a newly made "sweat hole" where the medicine man had treated the sick ."
- "The father went to the sweat hole and dug it wide enough for him to get inside with the limp body of his son."
- "Close by there was a sweat hole in which the men were accustomed to taking Turkish baths before ceremonies and also to avoid the nagging of their womenfolk."
- "Even though the mercury was rising to treble figures in this underground sweat hole they were in, Vince saw that Guy Ruley remained cool and calculating, operating with all the heart of a humming refrigerator."