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Definition of Rattener
1. one that rattens [n -S] - See also: rattens
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattener
Literary usage of Rattener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper (1869)
"Sheffield Martyr, Departure of Broadhead, the Union rattener, for America, 2 »
if id «а Working-Men's Conservative Association at, Sherborn (F.) on the ..."
2. Striking for Life: Labor's Side of the Labor Question : the Right of the by John Swinton, Samuel Gompers, Eugene Victor Debs, John William Hayes (1894)
"Nearly every man killed in any State in which the long coal strike prevailed was
either on the side of the miners or was, as the English say, a "rattener," ..."
3. A Momentous Question: The Respective Attitudes of Labor and Capital by John Swinton (1895)
"... as the English say, a "rattener," if he were not a tramp. The casualties in
the ranks of any uniformed body anywhere were very few indeed. ..."
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