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rat-catcher

noun

  1. a person whose job is to destroy or drive away vermin, esp rats


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He made himself quite at home in the Shack, and we looked forward to a display of his prowess as a rat-catcher.

We entered the meadows at the back, to see how the house looked from thence, which greatly delighted the rat-catcher's terriers.

What the musket is to the soldier, the spade is to the rat-catcher.

Round his person is displayed the broad insignia of office,—he is a rat-catcher.

The Rat-catcher points to a sort of barn that rises from the edge of the Minster Pool.

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