English edit

Etymology edit

rudder +‎ hole

Noun edit

rudderhole (plural rudderholes)

  1. (nautical) The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rudderhole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)