sweat hole

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.

   “Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes.”

2. isim A large hole in the ground, heated with a fire, into which a sick person is brought wrapped in blankets (once the fire is removed), with a jug of water for making steam, the whole covered by an awning to hold the steam in; an underground sweat lodge.

   “On the lake shore were some other camping places that had been used within a few months and at one of them a newly made "sweat hole" where the medicine man had treated the sick .”

3. isim An uncomfortably hot enclosed space.

   “Even though the mercury was rising to treble figures in this underground sweat hole they were in, Vince saw that Guy Ruley remained cool and calculating, operating with all the heart of a humming refrigerator.”