ground-rat

If they fail in securing their favored game, the guanaco, they capture a kind of ground-rat, or gather the snails and mussels of the beach; but the one grand aim of life is to hunt the guanaco.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

The poor parents by this time began to feel rather discouraged, but still they made up their minds to persevere and went on to look for the ground-rat.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

They found him and offered him their daughter in marriage, but the ground-rat denied that he was the most powerful being on earth, the Musahars were more powerful for they lived by digging out ground-rats and eating them.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

_Octodontidae_ the best known is the coypu of the Andes, one of the largest of the rodents, and the ground-rat or ground-pig of western and southern Africa.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I won't forestall your complex, tragic fate, though you're a lying little ground-rat. "

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

The ground-rat is more powerful, for however high I may be the ground-rats burrow holes in me and I cannot resist them. "

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas