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Definition of Ratels
1. ratel [n] - See also: ratel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratels
Literary usage of Ratels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The animals known as ratels or Honey- badgers are small clumsy-looking ...
All the ratels are of very mnch the same coloer, namely, iron-grey on the uppc? ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1903)
"In Africa and India are to be met with the curious ratels, a remarkable branch
... ratels are strong and very courageous beasts. The Boers of South Africa ..."
3. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"THE ratels. As the mink is adapted for an aquatic diet, so the ratels, a link
between the Weasels and the Badgers, seem to have been specialised to live ..."
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