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blowing hole

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a breathing-hole in ice, made by seals.

Quotations

1861

For the purpose of obtaining this necessary element [air], holes are kept open by the seals throughout the winter, and are called by the Esquimaux "blowing holes".

1921

Around the seal or blowing holes they [seals] were not in large numbers. . . .