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  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. 




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