sand rat
AmericanEtymology
Origin of sand rat
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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In fact, furriers are using everything short of their own hides � Russian fitch, French rabbit, Algerian sand rat, Polish pony, Australian kangaroo and Wyoming buffalo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tex, ye danged owld sand rat, ut's proud av yersilf ye should be to be the uncle av sich a darlin'.
From The Winning of Barbara Worth by Wright, Harold Bell
The flat hills of the goffer are likewise seen; this is a kind of large sand rat, living underground, of which I did not obtain a specimen.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
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