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Meaning of vent

- Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
- To sell; to vend.
- A baiting place; an inn.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
- The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
- Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
- To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
- To utter; to report; to publish.
- To scent, as a hound.
- To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

Crossword clue for vent

- Air aperture
- Air hole
- Air outlet
- Air-hole
- Aperture
- Opening
- Outlet
- Volcano opening
- Way out