Rathole vs Cathole - What's the difference?
rathole | cathole |
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.
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.
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