Gnawer

(A delightful true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream) rongeur (ron-zhay) noun, masculine rodent, gnawer ❋ Unknown (2007)

Crumb-snatcher am I called, and I am the son of Bread-nibbler — he was my stout-hearted father — and my mother was Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Among them were the teeth of a gnawer, equalling in size and closely resembling those of the Capybara, whose habits have been described; and therefore, probably, an aquatic animal. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A gnawer by nature, the hamster had formidable, chisel-like incisors in both upper and lower jaws, and it knew how to use them. ❋ ESTHER FRIESNER (1990)

Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds. ❋ Hesiod (N/A)

Before we had been long on the Barrier he developed mischievous habits and became a rope eater and gnawer of other ponies 'fringes, as we called the coloured tassels we hung over their eyes to ward off snow-blindness. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Lamarck would have been delighted with this fact had he known it when speculating (probably with more truth than usual with him) on the gradually _acquired_ blindness of the Aspalax, a gnawer living underground, and of the Proteus, a reptile living in dark caverns filled with water, in both of which animals the eye is in an almost rudimentary state, and is covered with a tendinous membrane and skin .... ❋ Unknown (1870)

The greatest expert in this work is the Dermestes beetle, an enthusiastic gnawer of animal remains. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

= Pternotractas = (“_bacon-gnawer_”), father of “the meal-licker,” Lycomĭlê ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

The damage is easily repaired, and I sit down, with unspeakable alacrity, to a business that tires my muscles, sets a _gnawer_ at work upon my lungs, fatigues my brain, and leaves me listless and spiritless. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)

I went back to the hitching post and gnawed at those knots, but got nowhere even though I’m a pretty good gnawer; the rope was thick and the knots were big and hard. ❋ Spencer Quinn (2010)

"So [I hear that] Dave is a [gnawer]?" "[Ooohhh] yeah...yeah, he is." "What was it like?" "Incredible...just...incredible" ❋ Ktrhiaonse (2010)

Ricky had to be [rushed] to the [e.r]. last night-----turns out his [fresh squeeze] is a knob gnawer. ❋ Moby Doug (2009)