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touchhole

[ tuhch-hohl ]

noun

  1. the vent in the breech of an early firearm or cannon through which the charge was ignited.


touchhole

/ ˈtʌtʃˌhəʊl /

noun

  1. a hole in the breech of early cannon and firearms through which the charge was ignited
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of touchhole1

First recorded in 1495–1505; touch + hole
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Example Sentences

Then he laid that match to the touchhole and another rain of iron swept down the street.

Carefully, deliberately, Pamela Russell lowered her candle to the cannon's touchhole.

The first charge was twenty pounds of powder, not more than nineteen of them running out of the touchhole.

There rose a little smoke from the touchhole plate, but no shot resounded.

One of the guns apparently missed fire, and as he was placing fresh powder in the touchhole the stuff went off.

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