ratter

Examples

• All

• So they got a cat, a ratter, as they had decided to do.

  Fiction book (1995)

• "Yes, there is, one of those ratters."

  Fiction book (1995)

• "A terrific ratter."

  Fiction book (2002)

• It was his own, a mongrel of the sort called by Negroes a fyce, a ratter, itself not much bigger than a rat and possessing that bravery which had long since stopped being courage and had become foolhardiness.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The farmer trained his new ratter to catch rats in the barn.

• The small ratter darted through the tall grass in pursuit of a rat.

• She adopted a ratter to help control the rodent problem in her garden.

Synonyms

T

terrier

vsratter

48 2.3

A small dog bred to hunt animals that live underground

is focused on catching rats rather than hunting underground animals

R

rat terrier

vsratter

• US

1 5.1

A small energetic dog bred to hunt rats

is any dog used for catching rats, not only that specific breed

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology