Rat-catcher (Noun)
Meaning
A workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The town council hired a rat-catcher to deal with the infestation of rodents in the sewers.
- As a rat-catcher, Jack was responsible for laying traps and baiting poison in the factory's storage rooms.
- Back in the 19th century, rat-catchers were a common sight in cities, hired to rid homes and businesses of pests.
- The medieval town employed a rat-catcher to keep the rodents from contaminating the food supplies and spreading disease.
- It took a skilled rat-catcher to remove the colony of rats that had made themselves at home in the old mansion's cellar.