Batless vs Ratless - What's the difference?
batless | ratless |
(rare) Without bats (the winged mammals).
* 1986 , John Sherry, Maggie's Farm
* 2010 , Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle (page 145)
Without rats.
* 1950 , Let's kill off the rats?'' (in ''The Rotarian , volume 77, number 3, September 1950)
As adjectives the difference between batless and ratless
is that batless is (rare) without bats (the winged mammals) while ratless is without rats.batless
English
Adjective
(-)- He assured me that we would be batless by mid-afternoon. When I asked what would become of the bats, he got rather shifty and said that the cyanide would drive them from the house...
- Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
Anagrams
* * * *ratless
English
Adjective
(-)- Given leaders, however, who will keep the rat problem before them as long as there is one live rat, and you'll soon have a ratless community...
