What's the difference between ratter and rattler?

Ratter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
  • (n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I rather like Bryant – a "little wire-haired ratter", according to Daphne – who becomes increasingly bombastic as the book proceeds.

Rattler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rattles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We cannot afford to let them treat us like properties of the state,” said Ollie, a 24-year-old water protector whose partner, Michael Markus, known as Rattler, was recently taken into custody by federal officers.
  • (2) He spent last season with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Class A Midwest League, hitting .243 with four homers and 29 RBIs in 68 games.
  • (3) The media might portray Perry as a dumb sabre-rattler, but it takes more than luck to be the nation's longest-serving governor.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Markus, aka Rattler.
  • (5) Photograph: Liminal Films The charges against Rattler, Angry Bird and three others could carry up to 15 years in federal prison and stem from a standoff with police on 27 October 2016 during which law enforcement deployed armored vehicles and pepper spray and ultimately arrested 141 people.
  • (6) They do this purposely to break us down Ollie, 24-year-old water protector Ollie said: “They’re going after Rattler to make him a poster child and a scapegoat.
  • (7) Annabel Mullion was painted with her shaggy-haired dog Rattler and reappears seven years later with a pregnant belly in Expecting the Fourth 2005 (only 10x15cm), and in a larger etching, limbs still like a thoroughbred, as described by one of Freud's favourite authors, Baudelaire: "vainly have time and love sunk their teeth into her".
  • (8) There are no leaders.” Sandra Freeman, attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, who is representing Rattler, said he was being prosecuted under a law that is rarely used in federal court, passed in 1968 to control the Black Liberation Movement and Vietnam war protests.
  • (9) Some supporters have compared Rattler and Red Fawn Fallis , another demonstrator taken into custody last year, to famous indigenous protesters such as Leonard Peltier , whose activism has led to decades of federal incarceration.
  • (10) Rattler’s purpose of being at camp was to make a safe space for people.” Rattler, who is Lakota Oglala and a US Marine veteran, has also consistently been cooperative and compliant with law enforcement, according to Ollie, who noted that he had willingly turned himself in on a state warrant and that the two of them had recently paid a $10,000 cash bond so he could be released.

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