Refuge vs Bolthole - What's the difference?
refuge | bolthole |
A state of safety, protection or shelter.
* Milton
A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd, work=the Guardian
, title= An expedient to secure protection or defence.
* Shakespeare
To return to a place of shelter.
* 2011 , Michael D. Gumert, ?AgustÃn Fuentes, ?Lisa Jones-Engel, Monkeys on the Edge
(obsolete) To shelter; to protect.
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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
As nouns the difference between refuge and bolthole
is that refuge is a state of safety, protection or shelter while bolthole is a hole in an animal's den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit; ie a hole the animal may bolt through.As a verb refuge
is to return to a place of shelter.refuge
English
Noun
(en noun)- Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge .
Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, passage=Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.}}
- Their latest refuge / Was to send him.
Synonyms
* haven * sanctuary * zoarDerived terms
* refugee * refugiumVerb
(refug)- Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.
