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Word Meanings - KEYHOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key. A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them. a mortise for a key or cotter. Keyhole limpet , a marine gastropod of the genus

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1. A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key. A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them. a mortise for a key or cotter. Keyhole limpet , a marine gastropod of the genus Fissurella and allied genera. See Fissurella. -- Keyhole saw, a narrow, slender saw, used in cutting keyholes, etc., as in doors; a kind of compass saw or fret saw. -- Keyhole urchin , any one of numerous clypeastroid sea urchins, of the genera Melitta, Rotula, and Encope; -- so called because they have one or more perforations resembling keyholes.

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