1 (in certain sailing ships) a space aft between decks, used as a storeroom. 2 sleeping quarters on a ship, especially those of the stewards and stokers: sailors slept in the glory hole, a long open dormitory... (Atlantic) 3 an opening in a small furnace used to reheat glass when shaping it by hand. 4Dialect. a drawer, closet, or other place, where things are untidily dumped.For those of you who wound up on CUSS expecting a different type of glory hole, I'm sorry to disappoint. For the rest of us, I hope that you are laughing as hard as I am now as I think about the sailors sleeping in the glory hole or what is untidily dumped in it.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Stuff It in the Glory Hole, Mate
As I looked up the word gonfalon in "The World Book [Unabridged] Dictionary" circa 1987, my eye fell on the guide word at the top of page 908 - glory hole. I tried to not fall down laughing, as dropping the heavy book on my foot would be rather painful, and felt that I needed to share. According to this foolish dictionary, glory hole means:
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ha ha ha
ReplyDeletePortisehead has a song called "glory box" so that's what I thought of... not that they're that different in my ind.
but I did crack up at the example sentences.
When I drove up to the ass end of the back of beyond Ontario with TCBIM, there was a sign for a glory hole. I made him stop so that I could take pictures of it. Turns out it was just a mine shaft (hur). I think I laughed for three days over that one. Especially because I had to explain to him what a glory hole was.
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