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In some senses, ratting is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ratting
noun 4
Collocations
5ADJ.
ambiguous, aware, best, other, terrier
VERB + RATTING
cockfighting, fights
RATTING + NOUN
blood, contest, dogs, hull
PREP.
in
ADV.
legally
Definitions
noun
1
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.
Bear and bull baiting, dog fights, cockfighting, ratting, and other blood sports were attacked as un-Christian […]
2
A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier.
3
Desertion of one's principles.
4
Working as a scab, against trade union policies.
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Synonyms
noun — to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (
- informing
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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 rat
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Bear and bull baiting, dog fights, cockfighting, ratting, and other blood sports were attacked as un-Christian […]
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The RSPCA were well aware that ratting was legally ambiguous, and when they received a report of a conviction for ratting in Hull in 1868 they doubted the legality of it.
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