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ratting
(encz) | ratting, n: |
Ratting
(gcide) | Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ratted; p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
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Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having
ratted, solely by his inability to follow the
friends of his early days. --De Quincey.
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2. To catch or kill rats.
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2. To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an
associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to
rat on.
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Ratting
(gcide) | Ratting \Rat"ting\ (r[a^]t"t[i^]ng), n.
1. The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v.
i., 1. --Sydney Smith.
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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
(wn) | ratting
n 1: to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law
(usually in return for favors) [syn: informing,
ratting] |
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Ratting
(gcide) | Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ratted; p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
[1913 Webster]
Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having
ratted, solely by his inability to follow the
friends of his early days. --De Quincey.
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2. To catch or kill rats.
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2. To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an
associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to
rat on.
[PJC]Ratting \Rat"ting\ (r[a^]t"t[i^]ng), n.
1. The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v.
i., 1. --Sydney Smith.
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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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