Crossword-Solution: BLOWHOLES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Quickly acquiring momentum, the whale came on like a locomotive, spouting at intervals, the vapor from the blowholes looking not unlike steam from some submarine boat.

The formation is limestone, in which are found "blowholes"--that is to say, circular holes two to four feet in diameter, which go down vertically to a depth never yet ascertained.

Good cast iron breaks with a gray fracture, is free from blowholes or roughness, and is easily machined, drilled, etc.

Its head, which seemed to me a great, blunt, shapeless thing, like a clumsy old boat, was eight feet long from the tip to the blowholes or nostrils; and these holes were situated on the back of the head, which at that part was nearly four feet broad.

Whales seldom stay more than an hour under water, and when they come up to breathe, they discharge the last breath they took through their nostrils or blowholes, mixed with large quantities of water which they have taken in while feeding.