latrate

present singular third person latrates · participle present latrating · participle past latrated · past latrated

1. rareTo bark; to make doglike noises.

   Latrate, to barke like a dog.

   [1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie Of 1623, New York: Huntington Press, published 1930, s.v., page 110

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   I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.

   1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145

   […] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.

   1931, Harry Kemp, Love Among the Cape Enders, page 91

   With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.

   1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201