glory-holen.

Etymology: In sense 1, perhaps related to glory v.² (compare Scots glaury adjective s.v. glar n.); if so, sense 2 is probably later in origin, and suggested by the formal coincidence of the first element with glory n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈglory-hole.

a. (a) (See quot. 1845) (slang); (b) a receptacle (as a drawer, room, etc.) in which things are heaped together without any attempt at order or tidiness (dialect).

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > without order

glory-hole1825

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell

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1825 M. Wilmot Let. 20 Nov. (1935) 227 A sort of play room or glory hole for poor Wilmot to keep his rubbish.

1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides p. iv A filthy, stifling cell to which prisoners are brought from the gaol on day of trial, and which, in the language of the degraded beings who usually occupy it, is called the ‘glory hole’.

1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls iii. 50 You can bring out your old ribbon-box... It's a charity to clear out your glory-holes once in a while.

1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Glory-hole, a place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a housemaid's cupboard, or a lumber room.

b. Nautical colloquial. 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 figurative.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun]

glory-hole1839

1839 W. H. Leigh Reconnoitering Voy. ii. 16 The other one was of the dog-fish species, and had nothing in his ‘glory hole’ worth notice.

1897 E. 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.

1898 Pearson'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.

1927 G. 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.

a1941 R. 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.

c. The hall of worship used by the Salvation Army. ‘So called, originally, from a cellar or underground place of meeting in Brighton’ (Barrère & Leland).

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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > Salvation Army

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glory-hole1887

1887 Daily News 24 Oct. The ‘Glory Hole’ Disturbances at Maidstone.

a1889 Broadside, Brighton Glory-hole These hoary-headed buffers, And devil-dodging duffers, At the Glory-Hole in Teddy Street they rave.

2. Glass-making. (See quots.)

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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > other parts of furnaces

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mid-feather1748

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1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of 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.

1889 Harper'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. intransitive, to carry on surface mining. North American.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > quarry > [noun]

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quar?a1475

glory-hole1902

1902 Geol. Surv. 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.

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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.

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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.

1927 W. N. Burns Tombstone 381 In this tunnel beneath the town the Grand Central mine ‘gloryholed’, taking out $840,000.

1943 Copper Camp 29 Parks' ‘glory hole’..turned out over a million dollars' worth of high grade copper.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) 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.)

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > shelter in trench

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1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 105 Glory hole, a colloquial expression for any small billet or dug-out.

1950 E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 67 The small dug-outs are cubby-holes..and the smallish are glory-holes.

Draft additions March 2021

A hole in a wall, typically the cubicle wall of a men's public toilet or booth at a sex establishment, through which people can engage in sexual activity incognito.Originally and chiefly with reference to sex between gay men.

1949 ‘Swasarnt Nerf’ et al. Gay Girl's Guide 10 Glory-hole, phallic size hole in partition between toilet booths. Sometimes used also for a mere peep-hole.

1989 M. Rockland Bliss Case ii. 52 Sometimes I'd sneak off to a porno peep show and hang round the glory holes.

2005 Gay Times Dec. 150/2 It's a contemporary take on a cruisy men's bar... A stylish little den of iniquity, though rumour has it that the glory-holes have been removed from the toilets.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	glory-hole
释义	glory-holen. Etymology: In sense 1, perhaps related to glory v.² (compare Scots glaury adjective s.v. glar n.); if so, sense 2 is probably later in origin, and suggested by the formal coincidence of the first element with glory n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈglory-hole. 1. a. (a) (See quot. 1845) (slang); (b) a receptacle (as a drawer, room, etc.) in which things are heaped together without any attempt at order or tidiness (dialect). ΘΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > without order glory-hole1825 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell houseOE cabinc1522 hole1535 lodging1612 hold1717 cell1728 lock-up room1775 glory-hole1825 box1834 drum1846 sweat-box1870 booby-hutch1889 Peter1890 booby1899 boob1908 flowery dell1925 slot1947 1825 M. Wilmot Let. 20 Nov. (1935) 227 A sort of play room or glory hole for poor Wilmot to keep his rubbish. 1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides p. iv A filthy, stifling cell to which prisoners are brought from the gaol on day of trial, and which, in the language of the degraded beings who usually occupy it, is called the ‘glory hole’. 1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls iii. 50 You can bring out your old ribbon-box... It's a charity to clear out your glory-holes once in a while. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Glory-hole, a place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a housemaid's cupboard, or a lumber room. b. Nautical colloquial. 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 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] glory-hole1839 1839 W. H. Leigh Reconnoitering Voy. ii. 16 The other one was of the dog-fish species, and had nothing in his ‘glory hole’ worth notice. 1897 E. 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. 1898 Pearson'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. 1927 G. 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. a1941 R. 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. c. The hall of worship used by the Salvation Army. ‘So called, originally, from a cellar or underground place of meeting in Brighton’ (Barrère & Leland). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > Salvation Army citadel1879 glory-hole1887 1887 Daily News 24 Oct. The ‘Glory Hole’ Disturbances at Maidstone. a1889 Broadside, Brighton Glory-hole These hoary-headed buffers, And devil-dodging duffers, At the Glory-Hole in Teddy Street they rave. 2. Glass-making. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > other parts of furnaces sump1673 stoking-hole1683 stoking-place1744 mid-feather1748 bottoming hole1815 trunnel-head1819 keystone1821 vault1825 well1825 nose-hole1832 fore-stone1839 nose1839 tongs-carriage1839 tunnel-head1843 glory-hole1849 1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of 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. 1889 Harper'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. intransitive, to carry on surface mining. North American. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > quarry > [noun] quarrera1375 quarrel1377 quarrya1382 quar?a1475 glory-hole1902 1902 Geol. Surv. 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. 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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. 1927 W. N. Burns Tombstone 381 In this tunnel beneath the town the Grand Central mine ‘gloryholed’, taking out $840,000. 1943 Copper Camp 29 Parks' ‘glory hole’..turned out over a million dollars' worth of high grade copper. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) 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.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > shelter in trench dugout1904 tamboo1916 elephant1917 glory-hole1925 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 105 Glory hole, a colloquial expression for any small billet or dug-out. 1950 E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 67 The small dug-outs are cubby-holes..and the smallish are glory-holes. Draft additions March 2021 A hole in a wall, typically the cubicle wall of a men's public toilet or booth at a sex establishment, through which people can engage in sexual activity incognito.Originally and chiefly with reference to sex between gay men. Π 1949 ‘Swasarnt Nerf’ et al. Gay Girl's Guide 10 Glory-hole, phallic size hole in partition between toilet booths. Sometimes used also for a mere peep-hole. 1989 M. Rockland Bliss Case ii. 52 Sometimes I'd sneak off to a porno peep show and hang round the glory holes. 2005 Gay Times Dec. 150/2 It's a contemporary take on a cruisy men's bar... A stylish little den of iniquity, though rumour has it that the glory-holes have been removed from the toilets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1825
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