bolt-hole

1. 1.

   a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den

   Broaderhole

Questions about bolt-hole

What does bolt-hole mean?

bolt-hole means "a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den".

How many syllables are in bolt-hole?

bolt-hole has 3 syllables and divides as bol-t-ho-le under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bolt-hole a common word?

bolt-hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.