What is "boltholes"

Usage examples of "boltholes".

If ever the Wamphyri, their thralls or monsters should invade via the main entrance, Lardis would escape through his boltholes and use crude but effective gunpowder to bring the entire thing down on whatever was behind him!

Now they plunged along Lardis's boltholes to secret exits where the steep slope of the foothills met the Rock's worn-smooth stone.

Could they use its passages as boltholes, emergency hiding places safe from the sun?

But beneath his continual awareness of secrets, boltholes, and dangers, there was a new awareness, as if he had sud•denly become cognizant, not only of the fish that swam beneath the surface of the pond, but of things utterly unimaginable that moved through the black mud at its bottom.

This was more than could be said of Grippen or the Farrens, who had informed him, with varying degrees of tact, that the location of new boltholes for themselves took absolute precedence over any possible fate of Lydia's.

But I have boltholes nearer than that—property purchased too recently to show up on your precious lists, my dear Mistress Asher.

But beneath his continual awareness of secrets, boltholes, and dangers, there was a new awareness, as if he had sud­denly become cognizant, not only of the fish that swam beneath the surface of the pond, but of things utterly unimaginable that moved through the black mud at its bottom.

But beneath his continual awareness of secrets, boltholes, and dangers, there was a new awareness, as if he had suddenly become cognizant, not only of the fish that swam beneath the surface of the pond, but of things utterly unimaginable that moved through the black mud at its bottom.

But I have boltholes nearer than thatproperty purchased too recently to show up on your precious lists, my dear Mistress Asher.

Some of these boltholes he ordered torn down and restacked: the stones are only two or three feet thick.

He could have disappeared into a dozen different boltholes by now, and no doubt there were all kinds of nasty surprises and booby traps lying in wait if she was dumb enough to go into the darkness after him.

Brett had a number of boltholes he'd gone to great pains to keep concealed from Finn.

The Resistance had established numerous boltholes, but none of them could be trusted now.

Hard-faced figures emerged from boltholes in the wood, all around, and came at him with shocking speed.

Let us make sure of our safety, both in strength and in boltholes, lest luck go awry.