| 单词 | trade rat |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrade rat trade rat n. (a) = pack rat n. 2; (b) a woodrat or pack rat (genus Neotoma and related genera) (cf. trading rat n. at trading n. Compounds 3).The figurative use in quot. 1876 may not be that of pack rat n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > petty or sordid broker1393 hucker14.. huckster1556 trucker1598 hucksterer1724 truckster1843 trade rat1876 grey marketeer1942 grey marketer1943 cowboy1972 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Neotema (wood-rat) wood-rat1767 bush-rat1867 trade rat1876 trading rat1881 pack rat1885 1876 Scribners Monthly Oct. 813/1 It was only trade-rats who troubled themselves about such gross things [as keeping accounts]. 1885 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 835 These descriptions..apply well to the trade-rat of the Rocky Mountains, save that they do not mention the creature's curious habit of barter. 1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck xxiv. 239 Either the pack-rat reformed into a trade-rat, or else he sold out his claim to a trade-rat. 1948 F. Blake Johnny Christmas ii. 79 Johnny slept that night..disturbed neither by Gitt's snoring nor the scuttle of secretive trade-rats. 1970 R. D. Symons Broken Snare xxiii. 157 He knew pack rats—trade rats some people called them. They would always make a trade for anything they took. 2013 A. Simpson & R. Simpson Falcon Pocket Guide: Nature Guide Shenandoah Nat. Park 14 Also known as ‘packrats’ or ‘trade rats’, these hoarders will collect shiny and colorful objects such as bottle caps, coins, or rings and in their place leave a stick, pine cone, or nut. < as lemmas |
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