NOUN
- relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
How To Use gnawer In A Sentence
- Before we had been long on the Barrier he developed mischievous habits and became a rope eater and gnawer of other ponies 'fringes, as we called the coloured tassels we hung over their eyes to ward off snow-blindness. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
- Among them were the teeth of a gnawer, equalling in size and closely resembling those of the Capybara, whose habits have been described; and therefore, probably, an aquatic animal. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
- A gnawer by nature, the hamster had formidable, chisel-like incisors in both upper and lower jaws, and it knew how to use them. TO STORM HEAVEN
- (A delightful true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream) rongeur (ron-zhay) noun, masculine rodent, gnawer French Word-A-Day:
- Crumb-snatcher am I called, and I am the son of Bread-nibbler — he was my stout-hearted father — and my mother was Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica