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breathing-hole
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an opening in the ice, made as a breathing-hole by some animal.
See: air-hole(def. 2)
Quotations
1854
The seal are shot lying by their . . . breathing-holes.
1937
It is only when the sea is in a frozen state that the natives live upon its surface and subsist upon the seals they procure through the breathing holes.
1964
Fewer Eskimos now could track down the breathing holes of the seals in the ice. . . .