ratting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ratting	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ratting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ratting n to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) Synonym(s): informing, ratting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ratted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ratting}.] 1. In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union. Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. --De Quincey. 2. To catch or kill rats.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ratting \Rat"ting\, n. 1. The conduct or practices of one who rats. See {Rat}, v. i., 1. --Sydney Smith. 2. The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.