单词 | rattle-mouse |
释义 | ˈrattle-mouse [f. rattle n.1 or v.1] 1. A bat. Obs. exc. dial.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. [xviii.] (Arb.) 147 The tale of the Rattlemouse who..excused himselfe for that he was a foule and flew with winges. 1856Zoologist Ser. i. XIV. 5216 Something alive was brought to me..with the enquiry whether I wanted a ‘rattle-mouse’. I found the mysterious stranger was a Serotine bat. 1960M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 48 In the Isle of Wight it [sc. the serotine bat] is known as rattle-mouse. †2. = ratel1. Obs. Called Ratel-Maus by Kolbe, though he adds that the Dutch name is simply Ratel; his account of the habits of the animal is very inaccurate.
1731Medley Kolbe's Cape G. Hope II. 124 There is a creature pretty often seen in the Cape colonies, and which the people there call a Rattle-Mouse... With its tail..it makes now and then a rattling noise, and thence it is called the Rattle-mouse. |

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