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Definition of Rat-catcher
1. Noun. A workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin.
Generic synonyms: Working Man, Working Person, Workingman, Workman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rat-catcher
Literary usage of Rat-catcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering: From the Stuarts to by Joseph Grego (1892)
"Jack Robinson, as " rat-catcher to Great Britain," is equipped for his delicate
task with a ... such as might preface a common rat-catcher's announcement, ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"Like swallows in the spring-time singing, And lo ! the rat-catcher ... With song
and fife No rat-catcher gets child of mine— Such lofty honours I decline. ..."
3. A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering: From the Stuarts to by Joseph Grego (1892)
"... such as might preface a common rat-catcher's announcement, giving the names
of twenty-two parliamentary rats already decoyed from their party allegiance ..."
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