vermin-killer

I wish you would take the trouble to go and buy me some vermin-killer.

New Grub Street 2003

When through with my ablution it was necessary, before I could dress, to grease my body with a vermin-killer that is supplied the men.

S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

It is, of course, a fact that one grain of vermin-killer would dispose of any one of them.

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 Various

They are not, as the vermin-killer advertisement has it, 'pests of the household.'

Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906

'And I would poison myself with vermin-killer if I felt any risk of such contentment!

Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

In this case the subject of research was the habits of the Carabus auratus, the little vermin-killer of our gardens, who is therefore vulgarly known as the Gardener Beetle.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

He was, however, a wonderful vermin-killer, and wherever his master placed him, there he remained, waiting with the utmost patience and resignation till an unfortunate rat bolted from the hole, which he instantly killed in a most philosophical manner.

Anecdotes of Dogs Edward Jesse 1824

The dog was a most determined vermin-killer, and in rats, &c., quite an accomplished one; but snakes did not often come in her way. "

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various