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gloryhole

gloryhole is the alternative form of glory hole.

Verb

gloryhole (third-person singular simple present gloryholes, present participle gloryholing, simple past and past participle gloryholed)

  1. To mine using a glory hole.
    • Furthermore, gloryholing was extremely hazardous because of having to work on loose slopes and upon some ground which was on fire or through which gas and smoke were issuing. For these reasons gloryholing was abandoned.1930, The Mining Congress Journal, volume 16, page 339
  2. (rare, slang) To have sex through a glory hole.

Meaning of glory hole

Noun

glory hole (plural glory holes)

  1. (slang) A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
    • The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 75
  2. A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
  3. A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
  4. An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
  5. (slang) A military trench.
  6. A generally untidy place.

See all 11 meanings of glory hole

Forms of gloryhole

Noun
pluralgloryholes
Verb
third-person singular presentgloryholes
present participlegloryholing
past participlegloryholed
pastgloryholed

Questions about gloryhole

What does gloryhole mean?
Gloryhole means to mine using a glory hole.
What is gloryhole the alternative form of?
Gloryhole is the alternative form of glory hole.
What part of speech is gloryhole?
Gloryhole is a verb.
What is the past tense of gloryhole?
The past tense of gloryhole is gloryholed.

Words near gloryhole in the dictionary

  1. glory-land
  2. glory-of-the-snow
  3. glory-of-the-sun
  4. glory-worthy
  5. gloryful
  6. gloryhole
  7. gloryholed
  8. gloryholer
  9. gloryholers
  10. gloryholes
  11. gloryholing

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