Definition of bolthole in English:

bolthole

nounˈbəʊlthəʊlˈboʊltˌhoʊl

1A place where a person can escape and hide.
he thought of Antwerp as a possible bolthole
Example sentencesExamples
- He planned to start this jubilee holiday boarding the ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, getting away from his work to the family bolthole on the west coast of Lewis.
- These pathways make convenient boltholes for thieves and vandals to melt into.
- It's 1987, and McIver is living alone in a rundown summer house in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the traditional holiday bolthole for generations of well-off New Yorkers.
- The town could be a fine bolthole during the Edinburgh Festival when the capital is heaving with visitors.
- The decision of stay-at-home tourists to trade up is putting pressure on seaside resorts, not least the burghers of Blackpool, a traditional bolthole for thousands of Glaswegians.
- ‘I belong to a generation for whom reading books was a mild narcotic,’ he says, ‘a bolthole from life's drudgery, sought out on a daily basis.’
- It's about three and a half months since I moved into this flat, and during that time it's been little more than a bolthole from the stresses and strains of work, to be honest.
- An American geologist has been explaining why he and a group of mining experts chose a desolate beauty spot in northern England to establish the ultimate holiday bolthole with a difference.
- It's a bolthole when domestic pressures become too great.
- A beautiful thing, until something goes wrong; when having a bolthole more than a hundred miles from where you bolt from, can be something of a disadvantage.
- We now have more than 500 members from 35 countries worldwide and many of them see the club as a unique bolthole where they can shelter from the public eye.
- With stained-glass windows and dark oak panelling from floor to ceiling, it must be a glorious bolthole when the open fire is roaring in mid-winter.
- One day, I will have a flat there as a bolthole for an occasional escape from everything.
- He and his friends had been down in their strip-lit bolthole for weeks, toiling selflessly day and night.
- He has a palatial house in a smart part of London and a bolthole in Hertfordshire.
- For an artist such as Eyton, a studio is a bolt-hole - a private space to recoup his energies, regain his equilibrium and gather his sketches and thoughts.
- Penelope Wilton plays Daisy Langrish, an author who moves into a Yorkshire cottage she has bought as a bolt-hole from her busy life in London.
Synonyms
hideaway, hideout, retreat, refuge, den, shelter, sanctuary, bolt-hole, foxhole, lair, safe house, asylum, sanctum, hermitage, oasis, haven, harbour, place of safety
1. 1.1British A hole or burrow in which a rabbit or other wild animal can take refuge.
  Example sentencesExamples
  As you walk along, notice that the banks are riddled with badger setts and boltholes.
  These boltholes give Meerkats a place to take cover if danger arises if they are out foraging.
  Basc is openly in favour of fox-hunting, shooting hares, flushing foxes out of their boltholes, rabbiting and other animal-unfriendly activities.
  The underground boltholes of the nocturnal creatures have been identified almost one mile away from the heart of Treacle Town.
  The rabbits were scattering for their boltholes, thumping the ground as they ran so as to warn those still below ground that they should remain there.

Definition of bolthole in US English:

bolthole

nounˈbōltˌhōlˈboʊltˌhoʊl

1A place where a person can escape and hide.
he thought of Antwerp as a possible bolthole
Example sentencesExamples
- It's 1987, and McIver is living alone in a rundown summer house in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the traditional holiday bolthole for generations of well-off New Yorkers.
- For an artist such as Eyton, a studio is a bolt-hole - a private space to recoup his energies, regain his equilibrium and gather his sketches and thoughts.
- A beautiful thing, until something goes wrong; when having a bolthole more than a hundred miles from where you bolt from, can be something of a disadvantage.
- Penelope Wilton plays Daisy Langrish, an author who moves into a Yorkshire cottage she has bought as a bolt-hole from her busy life in London.
- The town could be a fine bolthole during the Edinburgh Festival when the capital is heaving with visitors.
- An American geologist has been explaining why he and a group of mining experts chose a desolate beauty spot in northern England to establish the ultimate holiday bolthole with a difference.
- It's about three and a half months since I moved into this flat, and during that time it's been little more than a bolthole from the stresses and strains of work, to be honest.
- With stained-glass windows and dark oak panelling from floor to ceiling, it must be a glorious bolthole when the open fire is roaring in mid-winter.
- The decision of stay-at-home tourists to trade up is putting pressure on seaside resorts, not least the burghers of Blackpool, a traditional bolthole for thousands of Glaswegians.
- It's a bolthole when domestic pressures become too great.
- He has a palatial house in a smart part of London and a bolthole in Hertfordshire.
- He and his friends had been down in their strip-lit bolthole for weeks, toiling selflessly day and night.
- He planned to start this jubilee holiday boarding the ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, getting away from his work to the family bolthole on the west coast of Lewis.
- These pathways make convenient boltholes for thieves and vandals to melt into.
- We now have more than 500 members from 35 countries worldwide and many of them see the club as a unique bolthole where they can shelter from the public eye.
- One day, I will have a flat there as a bolthole for an occasional escape from everything.
- ‘I belong to a generation for whom reading books was a mild narcotic,’ he says, ‘a bolthole from life's drudgery, sought out on a daily basis.’
Synonyms
hideaway, hideout, retreat, refuge, den, shelter, sanctuary, bolt-hole, foxhole, lair, safe house, asylum, sanctum, hermitage, oasis, haven, harbour, place of safety
1. 1.1British A hole or burrow in which a rabbit or other wild animal can take refuge.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Basc is openly in favour of fox-hunting, shooting hares, flushing foxes out of their boltholes, rabbiting and other animal-unfriendly activities.
  As you walk along, notice that the banks are riddled with badger setts and boltholes.
  The rabbits were scattering for their boltholes, thumping the ground as they ran so as to warn those still below ground that they should remain there.
  These boltholes give Meerkats a place to take cover if danger arises if they are out foraging.
  The underground boltholes of the nocturnal creatures have been identified almost one mile away from the heart of Treacle Town.

单词	bolthole
释义	Definition of bolthole in English: bolthole nounˈbəʊlthəʊlˈboʊltˌhoʊl 1A place where a person can escape and hide. he thought of Antwerp as a possible bolthole Example sentencesExamples He planned to start this jubilee holiday boarding the ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, getting away from his work to the family bolthole on the west coast of Lewis. These pathways make convenient boltholes for thieves and vandals to melt into. It's 1987, and McIver is living alone in a rundown summer house in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the traditional holiday bolthole for generations of well-off New Yorkers. The town could be a fine bolthole during the Edinburgh Festival when the capital is heaving with visitors. The decision of stay-at-home tourists to trade up is putting pressure on seaside resorts, not least the burghers of Blackpool, a traditional bolthole for thousands of Glaswegians. ‘I belong to a generation for whom reading books was a mild narcotic,’ he says, ‘a bolthole from life's drudgery, sought out on a daily basis.’ It's about three and a half months since I moved into this flat, and during that time it's been little more than a bolthole from the stresses and strains of work, to be honest. An American geologist has been explaining why he and a group of mining experts chose a desolate beauty spot in northern England to establish the ultimate holiday bolthole with a difference. It's a bolthole when domestic pressures become too great. A beautiful thing, until something goes wrong; when having a bolthole more than a hundred miles from where you bolt from, can be something of a disadvantage. We now have more than 500 members from 35 countries worldwide and many of them see the club as a unique bolthole where they can shelter from the public eye. With stained-glass windows and dark oak panelling from floor to ceiling, it must be a glorious bolthole when the open fire is roaring in mid-winter. One day, I will have a flat there as a bolthole for an occasional escape from everything. He and his friends had been down in their strip-lit bolthole for weeks, toiling selflessly day and night. He has a palatial house in a smart part of London and a bolthole in Hertfordshire. For an artist such as Eyton, a studio is a bolt-hole - a private space to recoup his energies, regain his equilibrium and gather his sketches and thoughts. Penelope Wilton plays Daisy Langrish, an author who moves into a Yorkshire cottage she has bought as a bolt-hole from her busy life in London. Synonyms hideaway, hideout, retreat, refuge, den, shelter, sanctuary, bolt-hole, foxhole, lair, safe house, asylum, sanctum, hermitage, oasis, haven, harbour, place of safety 1.1British A hole or burrow in which a rabbit or other wild animal can take refuge. Example sentencesExamples As you walk along, notice that the banks are riddled with badger setts and boltholes. These boltholes give Meerkats a place to take cover if danger arises if they are out foraging. Basc is openly in favour of fox-hunting, shooting hares, flushing foxes out of their boltholes, rabbiting and other animal-unfriendly activities. The underground boltholes of the nocturnal creatures have been identified almost one mile away from the heart of Treacle Town. The rabbits were scattering for their boltholes, thumping the ground as they ran so as to warn those still below ground that they should remain there. Definition of bolthole in US English: bolthole nounˈbōltˌhōlˈboʊltˌhoʊl 1A place where a person can escape and hide. he thought of Antwerp as a possible bolthole Example sentencesExamples It's 1987, and McIver is living alone in a rundown summer house in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the traditional holiday bolthole for generations of well-off New Yorkers. For an artist such as Eyton, a studio is a bolt-hole - a private space to recoup his energies, regain his equilibrium and gather his sketches and thoughts. A beautiful thing, until something goes wrong; when having a bolthole more than a hundred miles from where you bolt from, can be something of a disadvantage. Penelope Wilton plays Daisy Langrish, an author who moves into a Yorkshire cottage she has bought as a bolt-hole from her busy life in London. The town could be a fine bolthole during the Edinburgh Festival when the capital is heaving with visitors. An American geologist has been explaining why he and a group of mining experts chose a desolate beauty spot in northern England to establish the ultimate holiday bolthole with a difference. It's about three and a half months since I moved into this flat, and during that time it's been little more than a bolthole from the stresses and strains of work, to be honest. With stained-glass windows and dark oak panelling from floor to ceiling, it must be a glorious bolthole when the open fire is roaring in mid-winter. The decision of stay-at-home tourists to trade up is putting pressure on seaside resorts, not least the burghers of Blackpool, a traditional bolthole for thousands of Glaswegians. It's a bolthole when domestic pressures become too great. He has a palatial house in a smart part of London and a bolthole in Hertfordshire. He and his friends had been down in their strip-lit bolthole for weeks, toiling selflessly day and night. He planned to start this jubilee holiday boarding the ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, getting away from his work to the family bolthole on the west coast of Lewis. These pathways make convenient boltholes for thieves and vandals to melt into. We now have more than 500 members from 35 countries worldwide and many of them see the club as a unique bolthole where they can shelter from the public eye. One day, I will have a flat there as a bolthole for an occasional escape from everything. ‘I belong to a generation for whom reading books was a mild narcotic,’ he says, ‘a bolthole from life's drudgery, sought out on a daily basis.’ Synonyms hideaway, hideout, retreat, refuge, den, shelter, sanctuary, bolt-hole, foxhole, lair, safe house, asylum, sanctum, hermitage, oasis, haven, harbour, place of safety 1.1British A hole or burrow in which a rabbit or other wild animal can take refuge. Example sentencesExamples Basc is openly in favour of fox-hunting, shooting hares, flushing foxes out of their boltholes, rabbiting and other animal-unfriendly activities. As you walk along, notice that the banks are riddled with badger setts and boltholes. The rabbits were scattering for their boltholes, thumping the ground as they ran so as to warn those still below ground that they should remain there. These boltholes give Meerkats a place to take cover if danger arises if they are out foraging. The underground boltholes of the nocturnal creatures have been identified almost one mile away from the heart of Treacle Town.
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