英语词汇“spike、hole”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

spike-hole

释义

† spike-hole Obs.
[perh. f. spike n.², but the simple word in this sense (spike n.³) occurs earlier than the compound.]
A loop-hole or small opening in a wall.
1598Florio, Balestriera, a spike hole or loope hole, to shoote out at.1629J. M. tr. Fonseca's Dev. Contempl. 90 Of all those Kingdomes..he hath not so much as one poore spike-hole in a wall.1642in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) V. 47 [They] played theire spicke holes and the tope of the Castle with small shott.1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2560/2 These..beat the Enemy out of a Ravelin..and fired upon them through their own Spikeholes.1742Jarvis Quix. Pref. (1749) p. xviii, The dungeon is one of those strong stone towers..with small spike-holes high in the walls.

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