Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cat-hole

Cat-hole (kat"hōl`) , noun

(Nautical) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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