Type of dog that has been developed for catching rats and other vermin.
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
Any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats.
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Examples for "rat terrier "
Examples for "rat terrier "
1 Hamilton walked over to Lickle, trailed by Buster, his rat terrier .
2 Terry is a rat terrier with a mischievous nature not dissimilar to her owner's.
3 I thought sure he'd floor the boy an' me not quite loaded, but Jack were as spry as a rat terrier .
4 The one on the left was the older of the two, a thin, dark man with the look of a rat terrier .
5 A few rat terriers in the Dedicates' Keep handled the job.
1 You wouldn't believe what a good cat, a prime ratter , fetches these days.
2 And Fan, the champion ratter , with her fifty off the reel.
3 Grey cat called Snooky who was a good ratter even with his balls cut off.
4 Both breeds are from China, but the Chinese Crested was used as a ratter on ships.
5 When properly entered he cannot be surpassed as a " ratter . "
6 But apparently, for once, the swarm of rats had been too much even for the ratter .
7 Much to Fin's delighted disgust Jak turns up dressed in a fur lined jacket, more Liberace than ratter !
8 But his nose still worked and he did make a pretty good ratter once I found him a home.
9 This was a barge dog that was used as a all around guard dog, ratter , whatever you needed it for.
10 Focusing the field-glasses, he saw that the dogs were of different varieties, but none of them of the short-legged ratter type.
11 The scene resembled a terrier squaring off with a Doberman, but my money was on the scrappy ratter , aka my new lawyer.
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 .
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.
14 Silky had been tied up, so that the ratters might have a clear field for action.
15 Oh, to be cut from him as this little boy had been parted from his Ratter !
16 There are 31 breeds in the Terrier group, made up of primarily ratters that came from England.
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