"rattoner" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1834 [1521], Daniel Gurney, Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the Lestranges of Hunstanton, from A.D. 1519 to A.D. 1578, page 28",
          "text": "It̃m pᵈ to yᵉ seid Rattoner for leyeng of yᵉ cham's for ratts",
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          "ref": "1874, Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Volume 2, page 129",
          "text": "Also, for 8d. paid to a rattoner, who destroyed the rattons (rattones, rats) in the chambers of the Fellows...",
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          "ref": "2014, Tiffany Simar, The Window, page 146",
          "text": "Some of the children would grow up to be Rattoner's / This was never a fancy job, but it paid the bills",
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        "A ratcatcher."
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        "(obsolete, historical) A ratcatcher."
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