Definition of "musk-rat" [musk-rat]

• Alternative spelling of muskrat. (noun)

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• "Despite Mudge's insistence that both victims were still alive and breathing, the musk-rat felt very dead to the worried Jon-Tom."
• "We ascend the lofty peaks of the Cordillera and we find an alpine species of bizcacha; we look to the waters, and we do not find the beaver or musk-rat, but the coypu and capybara, rodents of the American type."
• "You might be hospitable and ask me to supper, musk-rat!"