shot-hole

In a minute or two the light of a taper gleamed through the shot-hole, and very shortly after, the preacher, with the assistance of his staff, pushed a billet to Glendinning through the window.

The Monastery 2008

The whole apartments appropriated to my use consisted of the bedroom, a small parlour adjacent, within which was a still smaller closet having a narrow window which seemed anciently to have been used as a shot-hole, admitting, indeed, a very moderate portion of light and air, but without its being possible to see anything from it except the blue sky, and that only by mounting on a chair.

Redgauntlet 2008

Having thus secured the pass, he forthwith indulged the excluded huntsmen in brief parley, from a small projecting window, or shot-hole, through which, in former days, the warders were wont to reconnoitre those who presented themselves before the gates.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

I had brought an old kite-frame of cane with me, that folded and unfolded, and each shot-hole I made I marked and numbered to compare with my other endeavors.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

A little farther and you strike upon a room, not empty like the rest, but crowded with productions from bygone criminal cases: a grim lumber: lethal weapons, poisoned organs in a jar, a door with a shot-hole through the panel, behind which a man fell dead.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Fire was speedily obtained from one of their guns, and Hobbie was already advancing to the pile with a kindled brand, when the surly face of the robber, and the muzzle of a musquetoon, were partially shown at a shot-hole which flanked the entrance.

The Black Dwarf 2004

One turret was now in bright flames, which flashed out furiously from window and shot-hole.

Ivanhoe 2004

The bullet had gone through the gag into the jaw; that is why there was a shot-hole in the scarf, but only one shot.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The bullet had gone through the gag into the jaw; that is why there was a shot-hole in the scarf, but only one shot.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

A large shot had passed completely through this part of the mast, and while it was in the temple a pair of robins had built their nest in the shot-hole, and reared a brood of young ones.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832 Various