Meaning of sweat hole | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.
   archaic, nonstandard, rare
2. A large hole in the ground, heated with a fire, into which a sick person is brought wrapped in blankets (once the fire is removed), with a jug of water for making steam, the whole covered by an awning to hold the steam in; an underground sweat lodge.
3. An uncomfortably hot, enclosed, space.

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Examples

“Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat⟳ holes.”

“"[…] if the sweat⟳ were found, to all appearance, to flow⟳ less freely through the supposed sweat-holes than elsewhere".”

“On the lake shore were some other camping places that had been used within a few months and at one of them a newly made "sweat⟳ hole" where the medicine man had treated the sick .”

“The father went to the sweat⟳ hole and dug it wide enough for him to get⟳ inside with the limp body of his son.”

“Close⟳ by there was a sweat⟳ hole in which the men were accustomed to taking Turkish baths before ceremonies and also to avoid⟳ the nagging of their womenfolk.”

“Even though the mercury was rising to treble figures in this underground sweat⟳ hole they were in, Vince saw⟳ that Guy Ruley remained cool and calculating, operating with all the heart of a humming refrigerator.”

“As soon as the doctor testified that some blustery old politician was crazy, they could give⟳ the kid back and get⟳ the hell out of this sweat-hole.”

“Even if I found a way out of this sweat⟳ hole, I doubted I'd survive⟳ long enough to claw my way out.”

“It was a sweat⟳ hole but the acoustics were great and they sounded wonderful.”

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