river ratn.

Brit.

/ˈrɪvə rat/, U.S.

/ˈrɪvə(r) ˌræt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: river n.¹, rat n.¹

Etymology: < river n.¹ + rat n.¹

1. A rat or any of various other rodents living on or near rivers.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Rattus (rat) > particular characteristics or habitat

land-rat1600

river rat1709

plague rat1768

cave-rat1859

super-rat1916

1709 A. Hill Full Acct. Ottoman Empire xxxii. 235 The River rat, a little creature about the bigness of a Ferret, clean in shape, in colour Black.

1808 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle On Respiration i, in Treat. 475 River rats and tortoises remain for a long time in moisture; for their lungs have but little hear.

1841 Arcturus Feb. 153 Some little denizen of a pothouse might be alderman over a circuit of a dozen tumuli,..and conserve the peace against river-rats and ground-moles.

1892 H. T. Martin Castorologia iv. 35 The River rat, or Coypu, as it is called by the natives, is in many ways the intermediate species between the musquash and the beaver.

1941 Jrnl. Mammalogy 22 84 River rats. Their burrows leave the bank of the river and run uphill.

1971 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 17 741 He had embarked on certain Mendelian experiments with rats. In due course he had a colony of upwards of forty descendants of an albino white and a river rat established in his college rooms.

1994 G. L. Saunders Doctor Olds of Twillingate (1997) xxvi. 259 It was the distinctive odour of the trapper and skinner of muskrats. Johnny caught the river rats for pocket money.

1996 R. Drewe Drowner (1998) 211 Cockroaches scuttling, river rats tunnelling in the soft limestone of the foundations.

2. North American slang. A person engaging in criminal activities on a river; a river thief or river pirate. Now chiefly historical.

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1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 31 Oct. 57/4 Whose name had long been an emulative watchword among the ‘River Rats’, ‘Queersmen’, ‘Trumpers’, ‘Smashers’, ‘Fences’, and other freebooters and speculators of the west.

1883 J. Greenwood Tag, Rag, & Co. 35 With enough of ‘river rats’ to occupy my thoughts during my overland journey home, I paid my old waterman his due.

1911 C. Johnson Highways & Byways Great Lakes vi. 120 A river rat would carry off anything he could lay his hands on—he would steal from his best friend.

1924 Chicago Tribune 9 Oct. 7/2 He knows from his own experience as an outlaw and river rat on the wharves of Hongkong, China.

1996 C. D. Anderson Bluebloods & Rednecks x. 192 In the late spring of 1838, Johnston and his band of river rats, by then numbering forty or fifty men, embarked on their most audacious raid.

a. North American slang. A person who works lives or works on a river.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > boatman or waterman

boatman1274

waterman1439

boatsman1512

water rat1600

water snake1609

battoe man1756

boathand1821

boatie1826

water-jack1828

floatman1882

river rat1884

1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 513/1 Observe the river-rats clustering about the groggeries.

1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River xix. 193 If they took us river rats off our jobs they'd never find any other mutts ignorant enough to work the hours we work.

1976 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 4 June 28/1 Tom Harrison, a ‘river rat’ since 16, has purchased the Gananoque Water Taxi.

1992 F. Burroughs River Home v. 154 The river rats were deeply indigenous; they had about them the air of unhurried purpose that characterizes those things which belong to a landscape because they function in it.

b. spec. = river-driver n. Cf. river hog n. 2. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > one who

rafter1741

driver1825

river-driver1825

rear crew1851

loadera1862

skidder1870

floater1889

river hog1902

river rat1905

boom-man1908

river pig1908

rearing crew1944

1905 Bull. U.S. Forest Service 61 44 River rat, a log driver whose work is chiefly on the river; contrasted with Laker.

1917 in Highroads to Reading (1942) V. 345 So leap away you river rats, From landin' down to sluice.

1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 150 River rat, a logger working on booms or river drives.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	river rat
释义	river ratn. Brit. /ˈrɪvə rat/, U.S. /ˈrɪvə(r) ˌræt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: river n.¹, rat n.¹ Etymology: < river n.¹ + rat n.¹ 1. A rat or any of various other rodents living on or near rivers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Rattus (rat) > particular characteristics or habitat land-rat1600 river rat1709 plague rat1768 cave-rat1859 super-rat1916 1709 A. Hill Full Acct. Ottoman Empire xxxii. 235 The River rat, a little creature about the bigness of a Ferret, clean in shape, in colour Black. 1808 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle On Respiration i, in Treat. 475 River rats and tortoises remain for a long time in moisture; for their lungs have but little hear. 1841 Arcturus Feb. 153 Some little denizen of a pothouse might be alderman over a circuit of a dozen tumuli,..and conserve the peace against river-rats and ground-moles. 1892 H. T. Martin Castorologia iv. 35 The River rat, or Coypu, as it is called by the natives, is in many ways the intermediate species between the musquash and the beaver. 1941 Jrnl. Mammalogy 22 84 River rats. Their burrows leave the bank of the river and run uphill. 1971 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 17 741 He had embarked on certain Mendelian experiments with rats. In due course he had a colony of upwards of forty descendants of an albino white and a river rat established in his college rooms. 1994 G. L. Saunders Doctor Olds of Twillingate (1997) xxvi. 259 It was the distinctive odour of the trapper and skinner of muskrats. Johnny caught the river rats for pocket money. 1996 R. Drewe Drowner (1998) 211 Cockroaches scuttling, river rats tunnelling in the soft limestone of the foundations. 2. North American slang. A person engaging in criminal activities on a river; a river thief or river pirate. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 31 Oct. 57/4 Whose name had long been an emulative watchword among the ‘River Rats’, ‘Queersmen’, ‘Trumpers’, ‘Smashers’, ‘Fences’, and other freebooters and speculators of the west. 1883 J. Greenwood Tag, Rag, & Co. 35 With enough of ‘river rats’ to occupy my thoughts during my overland journey home, I paid my old waterman his due. 1911 C. Johnson Highways & Byways Great Lakes vi. 120 A river rat would carry off anything he could lay his hands on—he would steal from his best friend. 1924 Chicago Tribune 9 Oct. 7/2 He knows from his own experience as an outlaw and river rat on the wharves of Hongkong, China. 1996 C. D. Anderson Bluebloods & Rednecks x. 192 In the late spring of 1838, Johnston and his band of river rats, by then numbering forty or fifty men, embarked on their most audacious raid. 3. a. North American slang. A person who works lives or works on a river. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > boatman or waterman boatman1274 waterman1439 boatsman1512 water rat1600 water snake1609 battoe man1756 boathand1821 boatie1826 water-jack1828 floatman1882 river rat1884 1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 513/1 Observe the river-rats clustering about the groggeries. 1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River xix. 193 If they took us river rats off our jobs they'd never find any other mutts ignorant enough to work the hours we work. 1976 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 4 June 28/1 Tom Harrison, a ‘river rat’ since 16, has purchased the Gananoque Water Taxi. 1992 F. Burroughs River Home v. 154 The river rats were deeply indigenous; they had about them the air of unhurried purpose that characterizes those things which belong to a landscape because they function in it. b. spec. = river-driver n. Cf. river hog n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > one who rafter1741 driver1825 river-driver1825 rear crew1851 loadera1862 skidder1870 floater1889 river hog1902 river rat1905 boom-man1908 river pig1908 rearing crew1944 1905 Bull. U.S. Forest Service 61 44 River rat, a log driver whose work is chiefly on the river; contrasted with Laker. 1917 in Highroads to Reading (1942) V. 345 So leap away you river rats, From landin' down to sluice. 1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 150 River rat, a logger working on booms or river drives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1709
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