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Meanings of ratter in English

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Type of dog that has been developed for catching rats and other vermin.

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              Any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats.

                    Usage of ratter in English
                    1
                    You wouldn't believe what a good cat, a prime ratter, fetches these days.
                    To the blight: the eye of the world
                    2
                    And Fan, the champion ratter, with her fifty off the reel.
                    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917
                    3
                    Grey cat called Snooky who was a good ratter even with his balls cut off.
                    A singular man
                    4
                    Both breeds are from China, but the Chinese Crested was used as a ratter on ships.
                    Wired
                    5
                    When properly entered he cannot be surpassed as a "ratter."
                    Dogs and All about Them
                    6
                    But apparently, for once, the swarm of rats had been too much even for the ratter.
                    Earth Abides
                    7
                    Much to Fin's delighted disgust Jak turns up dressed in a fur lined jacket, more Liberace than ratter!
                    Radio NZ
                    8
                    But his nose still worked and he did make a pretty good ratter once I found him a home.
                    World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
                    9
                    This was a barge dog that was used as a all around guard dog, ratter, whatever you needed it for.
                    Wired
                    10
                    Focusing the field-glasses, he saw that the dogs were of different varieties, but none of them of the short-legged ratter type.
                    Earth Abides
                    11
                    The scene resembled a terrier squaring off with a Doberman, but my money was on the scrappy ratter, aka my new lawyer.
                    Extracurricular activities
                    12
                    Alan kept a ferret, which he offered to bring, and he thought he could borrow his brother Herbert's fox-terrier, which was a famous ratter.
                    Hunter's Marjory / A Story for Girls
                    13
                    My hunger pains, which had been merely dull and aching before, came roaring viciously to life like a ratter that has tasted first blood.
                    The heretic's daughter: a novel
                    14
                    Silky had been tied up, so that the ratters might have a clear field for action.
                    Hunter's Marjory / A Story for Girls
                    15
                    Oh, to be cut from him as this little boy had been parted from his Ratter!
                    The golden compass
                    16
                    There are 31 breeds in the Terrier group, made up of primarily ratters that came from England.
                    Wired
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