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Definition of Ratproof
1. impervious to rats [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratproof
Literary usage of Ratproof
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northwest Medicine by Washington Medical Library Association (1907)
"The greatest difficulty lies in rendering existing wharves ratproof, especially
when the shore line is not altered by a sea wall. The details must depend on ..."
2. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"The condemned room must be securely ratproof and be under the lock and seal of
the inspector. The object of this room is to contain all carcasses and parts ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"The condemned room must be securely ratproof and be under the lock and seal of
the inspector. The object of this room is to contain all carcasses and parts ..."
4. A Source Book of Biological Nature-study by Elliot Rowland Downing (1919)
"... in a self- feeding, ratproof hopper that is kept where the hens can eat at
any time. A good combination for laying hens is twenty pounds of wheat bran, ..."
5. Rural Hygiene by Henry Neely Ogden (1911)
"... and cellars where rats might abound were made ratproof by means of concrete.
Rats were trapped and poisoned by the thousand, nearly a million being thus ..."
6. City Milk Supply by Horatio Newton Parker (1917)
"... and ratproof vaults. No room used for domestic purposes should be directly
connected to the milk plant. The horse stable should be entirely separate ..."
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