Definition of Rattons

1. ratton [n] - See also: ratton

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattons

rattleweeds
rattlewings
rattlewort
rattlier
rattliest
rattlin
rattline
rattlines
rattling
rattling(a)
rattlingly
rattlings
rattlins
rattly
ratton
rattons (current term)
rattoon
rattooned
rattooning
rattoons
rattrap
rattraps
ratty
ratu
ratus
raubasine
raucid
raucities
raucity
raucle

Literary usage of Rattons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"A minister, rebuking a labouring man for sleeping in church, was told, " It's because I canna sleep at hame for the rattons and the ..."

2. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1887)
"... help but see the tigerish quality and gruesomeness of the deep where the dead " thick like rattons" lie amid the sea-tangle and the wrecks of ships. ..."

3. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland (1867)
"1 Tyrwhitt says, " Indeed, from the mention of the kitten in the tale of the rattons, I should suspect that the author wrote at the very end of the reign of ..."

4. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland (1867)
"... for, if he wrote the "story of the rattons" in 1376 l (which seems extremely probable from the very significant quotation " Ve terre иЫ puer rex est ") ..."

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