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Rathole vs Cathole - What's the difference?

rathole | cathole |

As nouns the difference between rathole and cathole

is that rathole is an entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats while cathole is a small pit, dug in the earth by hikers etc in order to bury faeces.

As a verb rathole

is to hoard.

rathole

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
  • A living area used by mice or rats.
  • A particularly squalid human residence.
  • An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
  • Verb

    (rathol)
  • to hoard.
  • to take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
  • to surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
  • (of material) to empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.
  • cathole

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cathole) (en noun)
  • a small pit, dug in the earth by hikers etc in order to bury faeces
  • (nautical) either of two circular holes cut in the stern of a sailing man of war on the level of the capstan, used for the passage of stern hawsers