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Webster 1913 Edition


Rat

Rat

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rat

RAT

,
Noun.
[Probably named from gnawing, and from the root of L. rodo.]
A small quadruped of the genus Mus, which infests houses, stores and ships; a troublesome race of animals.
To smell a rat, to be suspicious, to be on the watch from suspicion; as a cat by the scent or noise of a rat.

Definition 2024


råt

råt

See also: rat, raat, Rat, rất, and rät

Danish

Adjective

råt

  1. neuter singular of