"ratting" meaning in English

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          "text": "Don't go ratting to the police about what happened.",
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          "text": "Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest. A terrier — the best of ratting dogs — was placed into a pit with 50 rats.",
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          "ref": "2001, Colin D. Howell, Blood, Sweat and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada:",
          "text": "Bear and bull baiting, dog fights, cockfighting, ratting, and other blood sports were attacked as un-Christian […]",
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          "ref": "2008, Rob Boddice, A History of Attitudes and Behaviours Toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 257:",
          "text": "The RSPCA were well aware that ratting was legally ambiguous, and when they received a report of a conviction for ratting in Hull in 1868 they doubted the legality of it.",
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          "ref": "2008, Benjamin G. Rader, Baseball: A History of America's Game, page 12:",
          "text": "Such men usually satisfied their needs for leisure in the patronage of saloons or in such “blood” sports as cockfights or rattings.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jan Bondeson, Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities:",
          "text": "This was the pit for dog fights, cockfights and rat killing. […] At a time when ratting was largely frowned upon by respectable people in Britain, it gained considerable support in France […]",
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        "The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time."
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        "(archaic) The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time."
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        "A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier."
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        "(uncountable) A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier."
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        },
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        "(archaic) The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time."
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