Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, one of two small holes astern above the gun-room ports, for the passage of a hawser or cable in heaving astern.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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- noun Alternative form of
cathole .
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Examples
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When you dig your cat-hole, ideally at least a stone's throw from water, do not dig it too deep (it won't decompose) or too shallow (for obvious reasons).
Picking urban blueberries doyle 2009
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You can come up to the house and use it, or just cat-hole in those trees east of here, he said, turning for the door.
Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008
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You can come up to the house and use it, or just cat-hole in those trees east of here, he said, turning for the door.
Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008
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The cat-hole was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.
A Slave Among Slaves 1901
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In addition to these openings there was, in the lower right-hand corner of the room, the cat-hole, a contrivance which almost every mansion or cabin in Virginia possessed during the ante-bellum period.
A Slave Among Slaves 1901
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The "cat-hole" was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.
Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T 1901
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The "cat-hole" was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.
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In addition to these openings there was, in the lower right-hand corner of the room, the "cat-hole," -- a contrivance which almost every mansion or cabin in Virginia possessed during the ante-bellum period.
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The "cat-hole" was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.
Up from Slavery: an autobiography Booker T. Washington 1885
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In addition to these openings there was, in the lower right-hand corner of the room, the "cat-hole," -- a contrivance which almost every mansion or cabin in Virginia possessed during the ante-bellum period.
Up from Slavery: an autobiography Booker T. Washington 1885
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