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.
1You wouldn't believe what a good cat, a prime ratter, fetches these days.
2And Fan, the champion ratter, with her fifty off the reel.
3Grey cat called Snooky who was a good ratter even with his balls cut off.
4Both breeds are from China, but the Chinese Crested was used as a ratter on ships.
5When properly entered he cannot be surpassed as a "ratter."
6But apparently, for once, the swarm of rats had been too much even for the ratter.
7Much to Fin's delighted disgust Jak turns up dressed in a fur lined jacket, more Liberace than ratter!
8But his nose still worked and he did make a pretty good ratter once I found him a home.
9This was a barge dog that was used as a all around guard dog, ratter, whatever you needed it for.
10Focusing the field-glasses, he saw that the dogs were of different varieties, but none of them of the short-legged ratter type.
11The scene resembled a terrier squaring off with a Doberman, but my money was on the scrappy ratter, aka my new lawyer.
12Alan 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.
13My hunger pains, which had been merely dull and aching before, came roaring viciously to life like a ratter that has tasted first blood.
14Silky had been tied up, so that the ratters might have a clear field for action.
15Oh, to be cut from him as this little boy had been parted from his Ratter!
16There are 31 breeds in the Terrier group, made up of primarily ratters that came from England.