ratting

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ratting

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of rat Don't go ratting to the police about what happened.

noun rattings

archaic, uncountable, usually The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time. Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest. A terrier — the best of ratting dogs — was placed into a pit with 50 rats.
Similar: rat-baiting
uncountable, usually A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier.
uncountable, usually Desertion of one's principles.
uncountable, usually Working as a scab, against trade union policies.

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@misc{ratting_2026,
  title = {ratting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ratting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}