rat-catcher

NOUN
  1. a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin
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How To Use rat-catcher In A Sentence

  • We need to be problem solvers, like rat-catchers and firemen.
  • Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins. A Wanderer in Holland
  • Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
  • A few years ago, Owen, from Glusburn, would have been called the rat-catcher.
  • Carew's restless disposition took him to Newfoundland, and on his return he successfully played the parts of a nonjuring clergyman, dispossessed of his living for conscience 'sake; a Quaker -- here is a good example of his wonderful gift -- in an assembly of Quakers; a ruined miller; a rat-catcher; and, having borrowed three children from a tinker, a Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
  • It is equally attractive to rats and is often used by rat-catchers to bait their traps.
  • You're a semi-skilled mechanic, just like the municipal rat-catcher, on piecework.
  • Whether discussing sewer scavengers or dustmen, beggars or prostitutes, he would begin by carefully noting their physical appearance and often idiosyncratic garb: The rat-catcher's dress is usually a velveteen jacket, strong corduroy trousers, and laced boots. Sociology most Dickensian
  • Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins. A Wanderer in Holland
  • You're a semi-skilled mechanic, just like the municipal rat-catcher, on piecework.
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