glory hole

1. 1.

   a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship

   Synonymslazaretto

   Broadercabinet

Questions about glory hole

What does glory hole mean?

glory hole means "a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship".

What is another word for glory hole?

Close synonyms include lazaretto. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glory hole a common word?

glory 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.