mouser

«mouser» in Mova's school dictionary: a cat (or sometimes another animal) that is good at… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mouser, mousers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mouser is a cat (or sometimes another animal) that is good at catching mice. tree →

2) (UK) The Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is the official cat at 10 Downing Street, the home of the British Prime Minister. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday and farm life a good mouser keeps a barn or shop free of mice. In UK news Larry the cat has been the Chief Mouser at Downing Street since 2011. In stories and history, ships and bakeries kept mousers. Phrases: «a good mouser», «Chief Mouser».

examples

• Our farm cat is an excellent mouser. tree →
• The bakery kept a mouser to protect the flour. tree →
• Larry is the Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street. tree →
• Ships once carried mousers to catch rats and mice. tree →
• That lazy cat is no mouser; the mice walk past it. tree →
• A mouser can catch several mice a night. tree →
• "You may have her, and you will find that she is a good mouser too." tree →

note

Countable. Said «MOW-zer» (rhymes with «trouser»). From «mouse» + «-er».

In the corpora

• Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mouser» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.