单词 | manhole |
释义 | manholen. 1. a. A hole or opening in a floor, pavement, boiler, etc., through which a person may pass to gain access to a structure or mechanism for inspection, maintenance, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > through which a man may pass manhole1769 1769 J. Watt Let. 1 May in J. P. Muirhead Origin & Progress Mech. Inventions J. Watt (1854) I. 57 I will soon be East, and give directions about the man-hole. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §274 The center stone was made large enough to admit of an opening, from floor to floor, or Man-Hole, to be made through it. 1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 56 Man-holes. To make a road into the boiler, should be a plain pipe 2 feet 6 inches long. 1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 120 In the crown of the boiler is a large circular opening, called a man hole. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 318/1 To make apertures or man-holes..to enable persons..to enter and cleanse the sewers. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 156 At the foot of each ladder is a platform called a ‘sollar’, with an opening or man-hole leading to the next ladder beneath. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 61 They are sent down the main hatchway by a strop and toggle in the man-hole. 1893 Law Times 95 204/2 His horse's foot struck the cover of a manhole in the middle of the road, and it fell. 1906 T. Beyer Amer. Battleship in Comm. 122 Manhole is a space cut out of the boiler, tank, etc., large enough to admit a person to inspect or repair the same. 1957 L. Durrell Justine iv. 227 I stepped into the silence of the building from the dark street with its booming of rain in gutters and the splash of overflowing manholes. 1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. 1 c/5 Unless a jogger gets hit by a car or falls into a manhole, he or she is very unlikely to sustain any major or permanent injury. b. A recess or opening in a vehicle or vessel for the accommodation of a person propelling or directing it; a recess in a wall, etc., used as a place of refuge. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening to accommodate rower or paddler cockpit1754 manhole1853 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. 477 The pah, or man-hole, as we would term it, is very nearly in the centre [of the kayak]. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 119 Each rower sits in a manhole [of a ‘decked’ boat]. 1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Aug. i./3 I cautiously crawled into the manhole and sat on a girder [of the airship R100]. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ii. 16 In action all tank commanders stand on the floor of their turrets..or actually sit in the manhole on top of their turret with their legs dangling inside. 2. slang. [Punningly, on sense 1.] A vagina; (also, by extension and frequently derogatory) a woman. 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N. Cary Slang of Venery I. 196 Manhole, the vagina. 1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evid. Folk Epigraphy Western N. Amer. 20 Read the Covered man hole by Kotex. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Manhole, the female pudend: low: from ca.1870. c1981 Let. in P. Tatchell Battle for Bermondsey (1983) iii. 72 When I lived in Bermondsey, until my family were bombed out.., we had a saying, Bermondsey was a place where men were men and women counted as ‘manholes’ and members of the ‘Middlesex Regiment’ would not be tolerated. 1991 J. Dollimore Sexual Dissidence xvi. 247 Many interrelated fears and phobias are suggested by that image of women as ‘manholes’... In this masculine imaginary the vagina signifies a most disturbing absence. Compounds C1. General attributive. manhole door n. ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 316 The man-hole door. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 133 Flap-door, Newc., a manhole door. manhole grating n. ΚΠ 1944 W. R. Burnett Nobody lives Forever xvii. 137 Jim..took out his gun..and..tossed it down a manhole-grating. manhole plate n. ΚΠ 1900 Engin. Mag. 19 742/2 Manhole plates..in the shape of ovals. C2. manhole cover n. (a) a cover for a manhole; (b) slang a sanitary towel. ΚΠ 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 272/1 Man-hole cover, in locomotive engines, a strong plate of iron, bolted over the man-hole so as to be removable when required. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 55/2 Patent Ventilating Man-hole Cover for Sewers. 1948 Word 4 185 Vernacular of menstruation..manhole cover. 1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. Manhole cover, a sanitary pad: low male Australian: since ca.1950. 1992 M. Bishop Count Geiger's Blues xxxv. 172 Bowman prised up a manhole cover.., lowered himself into the opening, pulled the manhole cover clankingly back into place, and worked his way rung by rung into the..undercity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1769 |
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