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Bolthole vs Hideaway - What's the difference?

bolthole | hideaway |

As nouns the difference between bolthole and hideaway

is that bolthole is a hole in an animal's den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit; i.e. a hole the animal may bolt through while hideaway is a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people.

As an adjective hideaway is

capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.

bolthole

English

Noun

  • A hole in an animal's den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit; i.e. a hole the animal may bolt through.
    • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    hideaway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people
    • This weekend, let's find some romantic hideaway on the coast.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.
  • * 1980 , Making of America Project, House Beautiful: Volume 122
    • Furnishings by Stanley Furniture Co. include a trundle bed with hideaway mattress that provides space for two overnight guests.
  • * 2006 , Dr Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw (page 53)
    • Thomas Jefferson, who held the first United States patent on a hideaway bed, devised a system of elevating and securing the bed to the ceiling.