The rock climber put his finger in the bolthole on the wall.
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Bolthole
Synonyms for "bolthole"
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17 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- убежище noun (second home)
Dutch
2 entries- buitenverblijf noun (second home)
- ontsnappingsgat noun (hole used for escape)
Finnish
4 entries- pakoaukko noun (hole used for escape)
- piilopaikka noun (second home)
- suojapaikka noun (second home)
- turvapaikka noun (second home)
French
4 entries- havre de paix noun (second home)
- refuge noun (second home)
- repaire noun (second home)
- sanctuaire noun (second home)
German
3 entries- Fluchtausgang noun (hole used for escape)
- Schlupfloch noun (hole used for escape)
- Unterschlupf noun (second home)
Russian
2 entries- загон noun (hole used for escape)
- прибежище noun (second home)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
There was a guard at the front doors. He was smoking a cigarette; she'd seen the light from a great distance. They'd grown incautious in the absence of her continual raids, probably imagining she'd died of some viral infection alone in one of the countless caves ringing the forest. She'd seen their hunting parties canvassing the area, had prepared a few extra boltholes in case they found the one she'd shared with Yésica, but it hadn't proven necessary. Maybe they didn't really want to find her.
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a bolthole in the Dordogne
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“We’ll find a home among the Fremen,” Paul said, “where your Missionaria Protectiva has bought us a bolt hole.” They’ve prepared a way for us in the desert, Jessica told herself. But how can he know of the Missionaria Protectiva?
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