{{Short description|Nautical term}} thumb '''Hawsehole''' is a nautical term for a small hole in the hull of a ship through which ''hawsers'' may be passed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.infovisual.info/05/055_en.html | title=The Visual Dictionary, "Passenger Liner" | access-date=2007-10-18 | archive-date=2016-06-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616150145/http://infovisual.info/05/055_en.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> It is also known as a cat hole.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cat-hole | title=''Cathole'' at dictionary.com }}</ref> In the (British) Royal Navy, a man who had risen from the lowest grade to officer was said to have "come in at the hawsehole".<ref>{{cite book | title = Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | url = https://archive.org/details/brewersdictionar00brew_253 | author = E. Cobham Brewer | year = 1894 |page=1351 }}</ref>
==See also== *Hawsepiper
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