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Definition of Rathole
1. Noun. A hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats.
2. Noun. A small dirty uncomfortable room.
Definition of Rathole
1. Noun. An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats. ¹
2. Noun. A living area used by mice or rats. ¹
3. Noun. A particularly squalid human residence. ¹
4. Noun. An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) to hoard. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) to take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) to surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game. ¹
8. Verb. (intransitive) (of material) to empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rathole
1. a hole made by a rat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rathole
Literary usage of Rathole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War and World Government by Frank Crane (1915)
"THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN THE rathole GENERAL WOOD bewails the unprepared- ness
of our army. The Navy League urges increased expenditure for ships, ..."
2. Making Economic Sense by Murray Newton Rothbard (2006)
"On the contrary, a government bond market in difficulty is a market where less
of our savings is poured down a rathole, and more is channeled into ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"It is pleasant to turn from phenomena of dark-sitting and rathole type (with
their tragi-comic suggestion that the whole order of nature might possibly be ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"... absolutely no return, to keep on pouring good money after bad down the same
bottomless rathole. Every once in a while Cartwright showed up in person, ..."
5. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"... thousand I was gonta throw 'way like sand in a rathole. I 'ma babe eatin'
spoon victuals and only gettin' half at that. (Enter PRENTICE.) JACK. ..."
6. The Bookman (1911)
"Johnny McDuff seeks out Emma, the slavey, one night, and speaks: "I seen the
butcher boy bringin' in chickens to-day and I'm Johnny at the rathole to-night ..."
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