| 单词 |
nose-hole |
| 释义 |
ˈnose-hole [f. nose n.] 1. A nostril. Now dial.
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters N ij b, Cotton wet in the same water and put in the nose holes is good against Polippus. 1716Phil. Trans. XXIX. 519 The right Nose-hole, at the Root of the upper Beak. 1875–in many dial. glossaries. 1922Joyce Ulysses 51 His leprous nosehole snoring to the sun. 1950R. Moore Candlemas Bay 242 You know how Candy looks when she's mad, like death, them black eyes and her noseholes thin. 2. In Glass-blowing, the open mouth of a side furnace at which the nose of a bulb of crown-glass in process of manufacture is softened by heating.
1832G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 158 On either side of each bocca is a smaller circular opening, sometimes called a boccarella, but more generally..nose-hole. 1844[see nose n. 12 d]. 1881Spons' Encycl. Manuf. III. 1064 The end of the piece [of iron]..is called the nose, and gives its name to the furnace or nose-hole. |

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