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rat-catcher

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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James didn't always dream of being a rat-catcher.

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"Me friend's muddle-headed/' he declared. "His paw's nothing but a rat-catcher.

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"We can assuredly get on without a professional rat-catcher."

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Yet no Catholic may carry arms, no Catholic may hold a post more important than that of village rat-catcher; no Catholic may publicly receive the first rudiments of education.

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Fantastic as some of the incidents may sound, they are, nevertheless, true, having been collected mainly from an old rat-catcher living in the town of Hawick.

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