BUTTONHOLE
\bˈʌtənhˌə͡ʊl], \bˈʌtənhˌəʊl], \b_ˈʌ_t_ə_n_h_ˌəʊ_l]\
Definitions of BUTTONHOLE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
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To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
By Oddity Software
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The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
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To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
By Noah Webster.
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A hole in a garment for fastening a button.
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To hold in conversation against the will; to furnish with buttonholes; to edge with buttonhole stitching.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A short straight cut made through the wall of a cavity or canal. 2. The contraction of an orifice down to a narrow slit, as in the so-called mitral b.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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