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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A rat that infests wharves and ships.
  2. n. Slang A person who frequents wharves.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An alternative term for the brown rat.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.), [Slang] A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses
  2. n. brown rat that infests wharves

Examples

  • “So they walked on, down the middle of the broadest street of Caergoth's harbor, the brutes jumping whenever a wharf rat skittered from one shadow to the next.”

    Fictionaut: Father Swarat

  • “She looked Hayden up and down like a wharf rat eyeing a particularly succulent piece of cheese before drawling, “More’s the pity.””

    One Night Of Scandal

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  1. snitcher
  1. sneak thief
  1. pilferer
  1. Norway rat
  1. brown rat
  1. rattus norvegicus

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