Crossword clues for ratcatcher
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n. 1 One who catches rats; particularly one who does so professionally. 2 (context British English) insult, not widely used nowadays but made popular by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare in ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo%20and%20Juliet''.
Wikipedia
Ratcatcher is a 1999 drama film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
The film won its director numerous awards including the Carl Foreman Award for Newcomer in British Film at the BAFTA Awards, the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival and the Silver Hugo for Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Ratcatcher never received a wide cinematic release. It was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection.
The Ratcatcher (Otis Flannegan) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe, primarily as an enemy of Batman.
Ratcatcher is informal attire worn when fox hunting and consists primarily of a tweed jacket with tan breeches. Other specific items of clothing, forming part of the "uniform," might be prescribed by individual hunting clubs.
It is possible that the term was derived from the attire which the "ratcatcher" or "terrier man" wore. He was probably a crofter and followed the hunt across his land. When a fox went to ground the terrier man, would send his terrier into the covert to kill the fox.
In Victorian England the Rat-catcher, whose occupation was catching rats as a form of pest control, also used terrier dogs as one way of catching the rats, and this is probably the reason that the "terrier man" on the hunt was often referred to as a "ratcatcher." The Tate holds a painting,The Rat-Catcher and his Dogs exhibited in 1824, which illustrates the form of dress worn by the village ratcatcher in the first half of the 19th century and demonstrates the similarity between that attire and ratcatcher attire worn in fox hunting.
The usage of the word "ratcatcher" is demonstrated in a short story, The Man in Ratcatcher in which one of the characters asks "Who was the fellah in ratcatcher I passed ridin' that awful old quod of yours?"
Usage examples of "ratcatcher".
Many a ratcatcher has become a millionaire by selling his dead rats to the Factory.
De Lisle was about to fly out again, but had decided to call the officers of Operation Ratcatcher together for a last, informal meeting.
It could have meant anything from District of Columbia ratcatcher to Bureau of Inland Revenue.
The fair-weather hunters wanted to trot around in their lovely ratcatcher kits, so the sunshine appealed to them.
If you will excuse me, I must make sure my orders for ratcatchers and poison baits are being carried out.
He introduces us to fighting men, jockeys, thieves, and ratcatchers, without our running any risk of contamination.
Professional ratcatchers ferreted the bank once or twice, and filled their iron cages.
Gath had only ever met six gnomes in his life, the royal ratcatchers in Krasnegar: Pish, Tush, Heug, Phewf, and their two tiny babies, who could lie on his hands.
When one recognizes that the owner of a sporting pub with a well-attended rat pit might buy two thousand rats a week--- and a good country rat could fetch as much as a shilling--- it is not surprising that many individuals made a living as ratcatchers.
And then the ratcatchers had gone, dragging the other humans with them, and Maurice wondered: where, in this maze of cellars, is a Maurice-sized hole?
You didn't rise to membership of the Inner Circle of the Guild of Ratcatchers without hearing a few whispered rumours.