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† ˈgun-hole Obs.
1. An embrasure; a port-hole for a gun.
1532Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 145 Ane blokhouise..with gunhollis and duiris of aistlar. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 274 Seven or eight great Gun-holes two foot above the Water, by which the Guns play level with the surface of it. 1705W. Bosman Guinea 27 We had no Doors to most of our Gun-holes.
2. attrib. in gunhole angel, groat, coins.
Not known in the Coin Department of the British Museum. Mr. Barclay V. Head suggests that goonhole, gunhoill, may be corruptions of some foreign proper name.
a1577Gascoigne Flowers (1587) 32 Hick, Hob and Dick..Have many times more goonhole grotes in store..than hee. 1598Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848) II. 165 ‘The prices of gold and syluer proclamit at Edinburgh..1598’..The harie ducatt 7 lib. 5s. 0d. The gunhoill angell 5 lib. 2s. 0d. The angell nobill 5 lib. 5s. 0d. |