glory hole

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An opening through which the interior of a furnace can be seen and reached.
2. n. A place for hiding away things prized; also, a cupboard for domestic utensils, as brooms, etc.
3. n. A small furnace for reheating glass.
4. n. Nautical, the lazaret or lazaretto, a low space below the main-deck in the after part of a vessel where provisions and spare gear are stowed.

Wiktionary

1. n. mining originally, a hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
2. n. slang, sexual a hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
3. n. slang a military trench.
4. n. glassblowing A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod
5. n. slang, Scotland a deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder
6. n. slang, naval in merchant and Royal Navy:
7. n. An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. an opening in the wall of a glass furnace, exposing the brilliant white light of the interior.

WordNet 3.0

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