airhole

• The one that can rip a seal through an airhole 6 inches wide … a seal which itself weighs 200 lbs or more. —  Jack's Newswatch
• She heard something more about her mystery to-day, Daddy, and she nearly skated into an airhole--she was so upset. —  The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats
• (Santa Fe One instance each of "airhole", "air-hole," "motorcycle," "motor-cycle noncommittally," and "non-committally," was retained —  The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats
• The snow had blown into the hole and formed a hard crust across it, which kept the colder air out; and after our seal had tired of fishing and felt air-thirsty, he would swim quickly to the place and blow warm breaths against the crust till a little airhole was melted right through it, which was quite enough for him. —  The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages
• And here and there we passed a gaping black hole--an airhole, as it seemed, of the profound and inextricable kingdom of mummies, very populous still, in spite of the zeal of the exhumers As we descended the sandy pathway we were not slow to perceive the Sphinx itself, half hill, half couchant beast, turning its back upon us in the attitude of a gigantic dog, that thought to bay the moon; its head stood out in dark silhouette, like a screen before the light it seemed to be regarding, and the lappets of its headgear showed like downhanging ears. —  Egypt (La Mort de Philae)

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