Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbiter
Literary usage of Rabbiter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild England of Today and the Wild Life in it by Charles John Cornish (1895)
"replies the rabbiter. " Do you cop me your ' dabber. ... Do you fudge him a bit,"
urges the rabbiter ; and the bailiff " fudges " vigorously. ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... is employed to clear stations from them. 1892. EW Hornung, ' Under Two Skies,' p.
114: " He would give him a billet. He would take him on as a rabbiter, ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"He would take him on as a rabbiter, and rig him out with a tent, camp fixings,
traps, and perhaps even a dog or two.;> 1892. EW Hornung, 'Under Two Skies,' ..."
4. Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life by David Starr Jordan, Edwin Grant Conklin, Frank Mace McFarland, James Perrin Smith (1898)
"The professional rabbiter is not an agreeable companion. He is covered with the
fluffy fur of his quarry until he bears much of the appearance of a mouldy ..."
5. Light and Shade in War by Malcolm Ross, Noël Ross (1916)
"Hasn't he got a rabbiter ? " he asked. " Doesn't he know there are rabbits in
this paddock ? ... Just fancy a rabbiter-in- Ordinary to the King. ..."
6. Thirty Years of Shikar by Edward Braddon (1895)
"The above exception in favour of the sportsman must include the professional
rabbiter — the man who earns his livelihood for several months of the year by ..."
7. Colonial facts and fictions by Mark Kershaw (1886)
"At one small station we saw a professional rabbiter with a pack of some twenty dogs,
... A rabbiter may get about twopence for each rabbit-skin. ..."
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