† gun-holen.
Obsolete.
An embrasure; a port-hole for a gun.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > embrasure
kernel?c1225
cornelc1300
carnelc1320
cornerc1400
vent1429
loop1477
crenel1481
gun-hole1532
spike1577
cannonery1598
spike-hole1598
casemate1611
porthole1637
skitegate1677
embrasure1702
crenelet1860
port1946
1532 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 145 Ane blokhouise..with gunhollis and duiris of aistlar.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 274 Seven or eight great Gun-holes two foot above the Water, by which the Guns play level with the surface of it.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea iii. 27 We had no Doors to most of our Gun-holes.
Compounds
attributive in gunhole angel n., gunhole groat n. coins.Not known in the Coin Department of the British Museum. Mr. Barclay V. Head suggests that goonhole, gunhoill, may be corruptions of some foreign proper name.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > noble or angel
noble1350
shipc1410
Harry noble1456
angel1469
rose noble1473
angel noble1488
George noble1526
gunhole angela1577
angel piecea1665
rose royal1688
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > coin of 4d > groat
groat1362
great1473
chekasyde1543
flag1567
gunhole groata1577
Harry groat1641
a1577 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers (1587) 32 Hick, Hob and Dick..Have many times more goonhole grotes in store..than hee.
1598 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 165 ‘The prices of gold and syluer proclamit at Edinburgh..1598’..The harie ducatt 7 lib. 5s. 0d. The gunhoill angell 5 lib. 2s. 0d. The angell nobill 5 lib. 5s. 0d.
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