Preferred label

Slit/hole (features)        

Alternative label

Slit/hole (letterlocking manipulation); Slit(s)/hole(s); S/H        

Scope note

A breach made in a substrate. May function as part of a locking mechanism, or may be a corresponding manipulation.  

Parent concept      

Letterlocking manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/298 

Related concept                

Locking mechanism        

uh-linked-data/concept/319

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/500