Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the anus.

1663		Head Hic et Ubique V iv: You must be firing so often, that I thought you’d blow out your Brich-pin. Surely thy touch-hole is very foul.
1708		Mainwaring ? ‘Masham Display’d’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1975) VII 321: We’ll turn her Touch-hole to him, With Fire and Smoak, and t’other thing, Oh! we shall quite undo him.

2. the vagina.

1594		Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 324: His Highnes Master of the Ordinance claimes to have all peece guld in the touch-hole, or broken within the ringe, togeather with all burnt and unsufficient charges and scowringe-sticks, as fees and avayles appendant to his office, and to place the ordinance himselfe against the intended place of battery, but not to enter the breach in person unles it be faire and free from fyer.
c.1607		Beaumont & Fletcher Knight of the Burning Pestle V i: Her breath is yet inflamed: besides, there is a main fault in the touch-hole, it runs and stinketh; [...] Ten such touch-holes would breed the Pox in the Army.
c.1626		Dekker Noble Spanish Soldier II i: Much mischiefe is done by the mouth of a Canon, but the fire begins at a little touch-hole.
1653		Mercurius Democtrius 9 Nov. 443: Two Ladies of the Night [...] were Planet struck in their Tutch-holes.
1661		Wandring Whore V 4: For common jades [...] are numerous enough, and will sit with their legges spread over the sides of a chair with petticoates and smocks in their mouths, whilst their Comrades run a tilt at their touch holes in that posture, paying twelve pence a time for holing.
1674		Hogan-Moganides 38: Not so, quoth Nurs, you may discharge Your Argument, you are too large, But cause as Learned Doctors Teach, The touch-hole is so near the Breech. And is not that the very cause, Good Gammer Haunch, to come more close, That Ship and Bark, Sea-Coach, and Car, [...] By Epethite of Female Gender, That to her Port-holes, and her Tuns, She beareth Lading, Men and Guns?
1732-1820		Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 85: Riddles [...] 21. Why is a gun like a woman? Because it has an apron over the touch-hole.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 38: His fingers to her touch hole sent / Alas to give her small content / A larger thing would give more pleasure.
1785		‘Roger Ranger’ Covent Garden Jester 20: Cast off all the tackling about the breech [...] that uncovers the touch hole. Next get the breech down upon the bed, then you have the muzzle high enough for close work [...] lastly take your rammer in your hand, thrust home, discharge, that completes the business for the present, till you are ready to fire again.
1800		Nautical observations on female dress [cartoon text] ‘Women are like Crazy Hulks in a rough Sea, the Port holes are Hardly Secure!!!’ ‘Or like Great Guns, your honor! Long & lank with barely an apron to cover the touch hole’.
1834		‘Lustful Peg!’ in Libertine’s Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 143: For I’ve got a touch-hole, it is quite a pet, / And you’ll find very soon that it’s not been used yet, / Then the soldier his musket put into her hand.
1838		‘Rory O’More Had A Hell Of A Bore’ Rambler’s Flash Songster 12: My darlings, said Rory, come one at a time, / And I’m the boy your touch holes to prime.
1845		T. Rowlandson Pretty Little Games (1872) plate iv: His generation tube he shews. / Between her swelling breasts it goes. / His fingers to her touch hole sent, / Alas to give her small content.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 33: Batterie, f. The female pudendum; ‘the touch-hole.’.
1898		Forbidden Fruit n.p.: It is the real touch-hole, which once fired, lets off all the pent up sources of voluptuousness; let the chilly virgin be but once assaulted there by finger or tongue, and she is lost.
1946		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 284: W.L. McAtee, Grant Country, Indiana, Speech and Song, Supplement 1 (1946) p.1. prints the following text: ‘Ass-hole, touch-hole, my old hen, / She lays eggs for the railroad men.’.