Rathole

Quick meaning: Rathole is a noun meaning An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.

Meaning

An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.

More Meanings

1. A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals.
2. A particularly squalid human residence or other place.
3. An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
4. (printing) A pigeonhole.
5. (transitive) To hoard.
6. (transitive) To take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
7. (transitive, poker) To surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.

Example Sentences

Bhantus catch the sanda, or broad-tailed lizard, which dwells in rat-holes in the ground and lives always in fear of the cobra.

Word Forms

• ratholes
• ratholing
• ratholed

Synonyms for rathole

Depending on context, synonyms include amound, intreasure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include burrow, rattery, rathouse, rat trap, ratter, ritten.

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