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Definition of Rattens

1. ratten [v] - See also: ratten

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattens

rattail cactus rattail fish rattan rattan rattans rattan cane rattan palm ratted ratteen ratteens

ratten rattened rattener ratteners rattening rattens (current term) ratter ratteries ratters rattery

rattier rattiest Rattigan ratting rattings rattish rattle rattle rattle-top rattlebox

Literary usage of Rattens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Romance, Vision & Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1912)
"In sooth, the malt of many we mice do now destroy, And ye, ye rout of rattens, men's clothes would rend and gnaw, If, from the court no cat came, ..."

2. Romance, Vision & Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1912)
"In sooth, the malt of many we mice do now destroy, And ye, ye rout of rattens, men's clothes would rend and gnaw, If, from the court no cat came, ..."

3. Westward ho! Or, The voyages and adventures of sir Amyas Leigh by Charles Kingsley (1855)
"Drowned like rattens!" " Now; you musn't trouble his worship any more." " Trouble ? Let him tell till midnight, I shall be well pleased," said Amyas, ..."

4. Westward ho! Or, The voyages and adventures of sir Amyas Leigh by Charles Kingsley (1855)
"Drowned like rattens!" " Now ; you musn't trouble his worship any more." "Trouble? Let him tell till midnight, I shall be well pleased," said Amyas, ..."

5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1857)
"... to him ' white with passion' about ' them rattens' which, according to the passionate gardener, had totally demolished every early pea cherished by him, ..."

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