rare. Also 7 varminer. [f. VERMIN sb. + -ER1.] A destroyer of vermin.
1615. Markham, Country Contentm., I. i. 5. The grissell … shag-haird [hounds] are the best varminers, and therefore are chosen to hunt the Fox, Badger, or any other hot sent.
1848. Ainsworth, Lancs. Witches, III. i. (1878), 421. The lurchers, and, lastly, the verminers, or, as we should call them, the terriers.
