Keyhole
['kiːhəʊl] or ['kihol]
Definition
(n.) A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.
(n.) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
(n.) a mortise for a key or cotter.
Typed by Dominic
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you spy upon others through a keyhole, you will damage some person by disclosing confidence. If you catch others peeping through a keyhole, you will have false friends delving into your private matters to advance themselves over you. To dream that you cannot find the keyhole, you will unconsciously injure a friend.
Checker: Mario
Unserious Contents or Definition
A frequent test for sobriety.
Typed by Angelo
Examples
- Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He stepped back from the keyhole; drew himself up to his full height; and looked from one to another of the three bystanders, in mute astonishment. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I noticed it, Mr. Holmes, but you'll always find scratches round a keyhole. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And when they were all sneezing and inflamed, I'd mock 'em through the keyhole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In such a lock the keyhole, which is a little very narrow slit, is formed sinuously to correspond to the sinuosities of the key. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The door was hardly closed, when he again called through the keyhole: 'Bof--fin! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Aged's reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I'd open one of those doors, and I'd cram 'em all in, and then I'd lock the door and through the keyhole I'd blow in pepper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At length the sound of feet was audible upon the stairs, and then the light of a candle shone through the keyhole of the door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- No other key will fit it, nor can it be picked by a tool, as the tool must be an exact duplicate of the key in order to enter and move in the keyhole. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As a further means of detection photographs of some irregular object are made, one of which is placed over the keyhole and the other is retained. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If you please, ma'am, the gentleman would wish to see you,' said Bitzer, with his light eye at Mrs. Sparsit's keyhole. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His ear at the keyhole seemed then, at last, to give him assurance that something stirred within. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She knew that she did, from the candle-lighter thrust through the keyhole of her bedroom door. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Ever so often calling names in through a person's keyhole, and imitating a person's back and legs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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