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Ratting   Listen
verb
Rat  v. i.  (past & past part. ratted; pres. part. ratting)  
1.
In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union. "Coleridge... incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days."
2.
To catch or kill rats.
3.
To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an associate); to squeal; used commonly in the phrase to rat on.


noun
Ratting  n.  
1.
The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.
2.
The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.





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"Ratting" Quotes from Famous Books



... a new aspect. But still upon that, which once was called bigotry, Lord John must now take his stand. Neither will ratting a second time avail to set him right. These things do not stand under algebraical laws, as though ratting to the right hand could balance a ratting to the left, and leave the guilt 0. On the contrary, five rattings, of which each is valued at ten, amount to fifty degrees of crime; or, perhaps, if moral computations were better understood, amount to ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey
... "But his ratting changed nothing," said his companion, with an uneasy laugh; and they both struggled ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... ratting changed nothing," said his companion, with an uneasy laugh; and they both struggled ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... either the ghost or the successor of Sir Cresswell Cresswell. Not having any particular scruples of conscience about the Lord's Day, the gentleman worships the God of Nature in his own way. He thinks "ratting" on a Sunday with a good Scotch terrier is better than the "ranting" of a good Scotch divine— for the Presbyterian element has latterly made its appearance among us. Like the homeopathic doctor described ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard
... he had stayed for he would have been somewhat puzzled to explain. He was not the kind of man who, as a rule, cared to dawdle about all day with women when there was any kind of sport to be had from hunting down to ratting; more especially was he disinclined for any such dawdling when Helen Romer was amongst the number of the ladies so left to be danced attendance upon. And yet he distinctly told himself that he meant to be devoted for this one day to ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron


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