packrat

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Noun	1.	packrat - a collector of miscellaneous useless objects aggregator, collector - a person who collects things
	2.	packrat - any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, trade rat, pack rat wood rat, wood-rat - any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) genus Neotoma, Neotoma - packrats dusky-footed woodrat, Neotoma fuscipes - host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California

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Author Talk Tamara Wight will talk about her children's book "Cooper & Packrat: Mystery of Pine Lake,'' 2-4 p.m.

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The North Adams, Mass., man, a self-confessed packrat, looked at an Allis-Chalmers Model G and saw more.