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gloryholing

gloryholing is the present participle and gerund of gloryhole.

Meaning of gloryhole

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.

Questions about gloryholing

What is gloryholing the present participle and gerund of?
Gloryholing is the present participle and gerund of gloryhole.

Words near gloryholing in the dictionary

  1. gloryhole
  2. gloryholed
  3. gloryholer
  4. gloryholers
  5. gloryholes
  6. gloryholing
  7. gloryhunter
  8. gloryhunters
  9. glorying
  10. gloryingly
  11. gloryless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gloryholing (page history and authors); gloryhole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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