English Dictionary

rathole

noun

An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats. / A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals. / A particularly squalid human residence.

The rat disappeared into the rathole.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals.

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

意味（3）

A particularly squalid human residence.

意味（4）

An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.

意味（5）

(printing) A pigeonhole.