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rattener

rattener is the alternative form of ratter.

Meaning of ratter

Noun

ratter (plural ratters)

  1. Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them.
    • Grey cat called Snooky who was a good ratter even with his balls cut off.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 90–91
    1. A rat dog.
    2. A rat terrier.
  2. One who rats; a traitor; a deserter.
  3. A pirate miner, a miner who digs out ore or paydirt clandestinely and runs

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Forms of rattener

pluralratteners

Questions about rattener

What is rattener the alternative form of?
Rattener is the alternative form of ratter.

Words near rattener in the dictionary

  1. ratteen
  2. ratteens
  3. rattees
  4. ratten
  5. rattened
  6. rattener
  7. ratteners
  8. rattening
  9. rattenings
  10. rattens
  11. ratter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rattener (page history and authors); ratter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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