[f. LOOP-HOLE sb.1] trans. To cut loop-holes in the walls of; to provide with loop-holes.
1810. Wellington, in Gurw., Desp. (1838), VI. 504. The first [village] is loop-holed and there is an abbatis in its front.
1827. Southey, Hist. Penins. War, II. 184. He had been advised … to have the houses loop-holed.
1842. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., III. 43, note. He [Napoleon] … lies all night in sight of the other army loop-holing its farm-houses.
1842. Alison, Hist. Europe (1849–50), X. lxvi. § 33. 196. The houses adjoining the point expected to be breached were loopholed.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., IV. xvi. A stout log-house,… loopholed for musketry on every side.
Hence Loopholed ppl. a., Loopholing vbl. sb.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. i. 651. This uneasy loop-hol’d jail,… Cannot but put y’on mind of wedlock.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 24 Aug., 10. The … loopholing of such farmyards … as occupied places of tactical importance.
1885. Gloucestersh. Chron., 14 Feb., 2. From the loopholed walls the rifle puffs shot out continuously.
1900. Blackw. Mag., Aug., 244/1. Near the river was the village of Dubba with loopholed houses filled with armed men.
