different between hawser vs cathole

English

Etymology

From Middle English hauser, haucer, from Anglo-Norman haucer, from Old French haucier, halcier (“hoister”), from Vulgar Latin *alti?re (“to raise”), from Late Latin alt?re (“to make high”), from Latin altus (“high”). Altered in English by mistaken association with hawse and perhaps haul. Compare French aussière, haussière.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??z?(r)

Noun

hawser (plural hawsers)

1. (nautical) A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 26, in Billy Budd^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     A hatchet to my hawser? all adrift to go?

Translations

Anagrams

• Washer, rewash, washer, whares

English

Alternative forms

• cat hole

Etymology

cat +? hole

Noun

cathole (plural catholes)

1. A small pit, dug in the earth by hikers etc in order to bury faeces.
2. (nautical) Either of two circular holes cut in the stern of a sailing man of war on the level of the capstan, used for the passage of stern hawsers.

Further reading

• cathole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cholate