Air hole: Definition and part of speech

Air hole

  1. A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.
  2. A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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