rattening
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English
[edit]![Rattening: One of those disgraceful outrages known as "rattening" was perpetrated on Saturday night, at a brickyard worked by a man named Wood, in Sheffield. Not content with destroying several thousand bricks, they had been at considerable trouble in carrying all the barrows, planks, &c., and even the brickmaker's table, to a considerable distance, and had thrown them down an unused pit-shaft. Wood is not a member of the Brickmakers' Union.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Rattening_-_Aberdeen_People%27s_Journal_-_1864-06-18_-_page_4.jpg/220px-Rattening_-_Aberdeen_People%27s_Journal_-_1864-06-18_-_page_4.jpg)
Etymology
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Noun
[edit]rattening (uncountable)
- (obsolete, Northern England) The practice of sabotaging machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute