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Water rat   /wˈɔtər ræt/   Listen
noun
Water rat  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The water vole. See under Vole.
(b)
The muskrat.
(c)
The beaver rat. See under Beaver.
2.
A thief on the water; a pirate.





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"Water rat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Togi busy in a small cove where a jagged tangle of drift made a mat dating from the last high-water period. She was finishing a hearty breakfast, the remains of a water rat being buried thriftily against future need after the instincts of her kind. When she was done she came to Shann, inquiry plain to read ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... across such a country as this. Scotland is a fine country, Hume, a grand country, and we are all proud of it, you know, but for campaigning, give me the plains of Germany; while, as for your weather here, it is only fit for a water rat." ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty
... and saw Baree. He was standing quietly and unleashed, with freedom on all sides of him. Yet he did not run. He was waiting, wet as a water rat, with his eyes fixed on her expectantly. Nepeese made a ...
— Baree, Son of Kazan • James Oliver Curwood
... he said. "I was home from Camp Dix on a short leave and was on my way to see the old gent and the rest of the folks, when who should I run plunk into but that old water rat. It was five o'clock in the morning, and I was just taking a hop, skip and a jump off the train. 'Come on down the bay fishing,' he says. 'What, in these togs?' I told him. 'I'll get 'em all greased up and what'll Uncle Sam say?' 'Go home and get some old ones,' he ...
— Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh


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