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rattens

rattens is the plural of ratten.

rattens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ratten.

Meaning of ratten

Verb

ratten (third-person singular simple present rattens, present participle rattening, simple past and past participle 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?1867, Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at...

Questions about rattens

What is rattens the plural of?
Rattens is the plural of ratten.

Words near rattens in the dictionary

  1. rattened
  2. rattener
  3. ratteners
  4. rattening
  5. rattenings
  6. rattens
  7. ratter
  8. ratteries
  9. Ratterree
  10. Ratterrees
  11. ratters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rattens (page history and authors); ratten (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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