Hypertext Webster Gateway: "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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ratting
n : to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law
(usually in return for favors) [syn: {informing}]
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