Definition of mouser
: a catcher of mice and rats;
especially
: a cat proficient at mousing
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As mousers, cats earn their keep guarding the sacks of grain that are essential to distilleries and breweries.
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Philadelphia’s Animal Care and Control Team established the program about four years ago to place unadoptable cats — the biters and the skittish, the swatters and the ones who won’t use a litter box — into jobs as mousers at barns or stables.
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Others go to people looking for mousers or barn cats outside.
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The researchers even found evidence of these human-loving cats at the Viking port of Ralswiek on the Baltic Sea, says Geigl, and the Iranian port of Siraf, confirming that the faithful mousers commonly joined sailing crews.
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The only member of the household on Downing Street to be spared the indignity of one of the fastest political transitions in recent memory will be Larry the Cat, a tabby who holds the title of chief mouser to the cabinet office.
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The researchers even found evidence of these human-loving cats at the Viking port of Ralswiek on the Baltic Sea, says Geigl, and the Iranian port of Siraf, confirming that the faithful mousers commonly joined sailing crews.
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First Known Use of mouser
15th century
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: a cat that is good at catching mice
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