A hole for the escape of gas or air

Usage examples of venthole.

There had been no time to run the one remaining cannon into a firing position and Harper, regretting the lost chance, went to check that the quickfuse still led through the cleared venthole to the charge.

The doorflaps were tied back, the side panels raised a little at the bottom, and a stir of air rose through the venthole in the peak, enough to create an illusion of coolness.

As soon as the steam whistled through the venthole I ripped open the lid of the stretched pack and pulled out a rib the length of my arm.

At the middle of the city stood a block full twenty meters high, Windowless, only the door and the ventholes opening to air.

Although cheap and unadorned, the casket had several ventholes drilled in the sides.

Nor was he surprised, as he approached the coffin, to detect the reeking odor of advanced corporeal decay emanating from the ventholes, and suggesting that the present occupant had been dead for some time.

Standing close to the coffin, he noticed that the odor seeping out of the ventholes was certainly rank.

Rivulets of the horrid stuff, already starting to burn, spilling through the ventholes and the gunports—slits narrow enough to provide protection from missiles, but not from a mass of liquid.

Rivulets of the horrid stuff, already starting to burn, spilling through the ventholes and the gunports—slits narrow enough to provide protection from missiles, but not from a mass of liquid.