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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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ratting

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archaic uncountable usually

(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.

Japanese Meaning

（古語）犬に狭い穴内に閉じ込められたネズミを攻撃させ、一定時間内に殺せるネズミの数を競う血みどろの競技

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Ratting, once a popular but cruel blood sport, involved setting a dog into a pit to see how many confined rats it could kill within a set time.

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鼠狩りはかつて人気があったが残酷な血の娯楽で、犬を穴に放して制限時間内に閉じ込められた鼠を何匹殺せるかを競わせる行為だった。

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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.

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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(uncountable) A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier.

Sense（3）

Desertion of one's principles.

Sense（4）

Working as a scab, against trade union policies.

rattings

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