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ratten

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The verbal sense is from the notion of causing mischief like a rat.

noun rattens

  1. alternative, rare Alternative form of ratton

verb rattens · rattening · rattened

  1. Northern England, obsolete To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union. Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?

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@misc{ratten_2026,
  title = {ratten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ratten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}