rat-hunting

It is a physiological peculiarity which leads the Greyhound to chase its prey by sight, — that enables the Beagle to track it by the scent, — that impels the Terrier to its rat-hunting propensity, — and that leads the Retriever to its habit of retrieving.

Essays 2007

Adjoining his castle was an amphitheatre where the Prince indulged in bull-baiting, rat-hunting, and other ferocious sports.

The Rose and the Ring 2006

Boxing, rat-hunting, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aristocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences.

Vanity Fair 2006

On another most blissful morning, these four gentlemen partook of the amusement of rat-hunting in a barn, than which sport Rawdon as yet had never seen anything more noble.

Vanity Fair 2006

In Angola the boys "live for a month under the care of a fetich-priest, passing their time in drum-beating, a wild sort of singing, and rat-hunting."

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

-- Graham went straight from school to the potato patches where the men were rat-hunting, and did not get home till dark.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

Ackworth, and grew up a genuine country lad, scouring the lanes on his famous grey pony, Peter Scroggins, the acknowledged leader of the village lads in bird-nesting and rat-hunting expeditions, and taking his full share of the work on his father's little farm.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

-- Yesterday and to-day some of the men were rat-hunting at the potato patches.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

This puzzled me at the time, but the next day I found the noise had been caused by one of our party rat-hunting with the aid of a boot which had landed on a tin basin instead of the rat.

'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight

Uncle Ramsey departed "rat-hunting," and Tennelly repaired to

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz