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ˈglory-hole
[In sense 1, perh. related to glory v.2 (cf. Sc. glaury adj. s.v. glar); if so, sense 2 is prob. later in origin, and suggested by the formal coincidence of the first element with glory n.]
1. a. slang. (See quot. 1845). b. dial. A receptacle (as a drawer, room, etc.) in which things are heaped together without any attempt at order or tidiness.
1825M. Wilmot Let. 20 Nov. (1935) 227 A sort of play room or glory hole for poor Wilmot to keep his rubbish. 1845T. Cooper Purg. Suicides (1877) p. vi, A filthy, stifling cell to which prisoners are brought from the gaol on the day of trial, and which in the language of the degraded beings who usually occupy it, is called the ‘glory hole’. 1871Mrs. Whitney We Girls iii. 62 You can bring out your old ribbon-box..It's a charity to clear out your glory-holes once in a while. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Glory-hole, a place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a housemaid's cupboard, or a lumber room.
c. Naut. colloq. Any of various compartments of a ship, as: (a) the lazaretto; (b) one or more rooms between or below decks used as sleeping-quarters for stewards. Also fig.
1839W. H. Leigh Reconnoitering Voy. ii. 16 The other one was of the dog-fish species, and had nothing in his ‘glory hole’ worth notice. 1897E. G. Constantine Marine Engin. ix. 108 In the ‘glory-hole’, which had to be descended to tighten up the inner trunk gland near the crank pit. 1898Pearson's Mag. V. 213/2 They went through every part of her, from the sodden shaft-tunnel, to the glory-hole where the stewards live. 1927G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 74/2 Glory hole, a term sometimes given to the firemen's quarters of a steamer; sometimes applied to the lazarette. a1941R. Bedford in Austral. Short Stories (1951) 95 I'm..waitin' till I can sneak out on the boat deck to sleep—the glory hole being so hot.
2. Glass-making. (See quots.)
1849A. Pellatt Curios. Glass Making 65 The large goods receive a final reheating at the mouth of a pot heated by beech-wood, and called the Glory Hole. 1889Harper's Mag. July 250 The working furnaces..are small blast-furnaces..each providing a number of openings directly into the flames. A spectator sees at once the appropriateness of their name—‘glory-holes’.
3. A large cavernous opening or pit into a mine; an open quarry. Hence as v. intr., to carry on surface mining. N. Amer.
1902Geol. Survey Canada Summary Report 1901 64A, The larger properties..are now mining by large quarries or ‘Glory holes’, from which the material will be loaded directly into ore cars. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 21 July 3/3 The Mother Lode mine has been working for some sixteen years, partly as a glory hole and partly by shaft and drift. 1926Ibid. 13 July 3/2 The strike..was made in the glory hole of the property..and there is considerable of the high-grade free milling quartz. 1927W. N. Burns Tombstone 381 In this tunnel beneath the town the Grand Central mine ‘gloryholed’, taking out $840,000. 1943Copper Camp 29 Parks' ‘glory hole’..turned out over a million dollars' worth of high grade copper. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. VIII. 481/1 Glory-holing is an underhand stoping method occasionally used to develop funnel-shaped excavations in large ore bodies.
4. Army slang. (See quots.)
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 105 Glory hole, a colloquial expression for any small billet or dug-out. 1950Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 67 The small dug-outs are cubby-holes..and the smallish are glory-holes. |