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sweat holes

sweat holes is the plural of sweat hole.

Meaning of sweat hole

Noun (1)

sweat hole (plural sweat holes)

  1. (archaic, nonstandard, rare) An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.
    • Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes.2012, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann, Communicating with Virtual Worlds, page 140

Noun (2)

sweat hole (plural sweat holes)

  1. 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.
    • 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 .1907 January, Dillon Wallace, “The Long Labrador Trail”, in Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Caspar Whitney, editors, Outing Magazine, volume 49, number 4, page 432
  2. An uncomfortably hot enclosed space.
    • 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.2012, Danny Miller, The Gilded Edge

Questions about sweat holes

What is sweat holes the plural of?
Sweat holes is the plural of sweat hole.

Words near sweat holes in the dictionary

  1. sweat equities
  2. sweat equity
  3. sweat gland
  4. sweat glands
  5. sweat hole
  6. sweat holes
  7. sweat it out
  8. sweat like a hooker in church
  9. sweat like a horse
  10. sweat like a nigger
  11. sweat like a nigger on election day

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