Hatting vs Ratting - What's the difference?
hatting | ratting |
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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.
* 1993 , Ronald H. Fritze, ?James Stuart Olson, ?Randy Roberts, Reflections on World Civilization: A Reader (volume 2, page 102)
* 2001 , Colin D. Howell, Blood, Sweat and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada
* 2008 , Rob Boddice, A History of Attitudes and Behaviours Toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (page 257)
* 2012 , Jan Bondeson, Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities
A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier.
As nouns the difference between hatting and ratting
is that hatting is the manufacture of hats while ratting is (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.As a verb ratting is
.ratting
English
Verb
(head)- Don't go ratting to the police about what happened.
- Gaining Access to another computer, Remotely, via a Trojan 'virus' application or malicious code snippet that can even be embedded in an image's bits. See article at [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_TechNet Microsoft TechNet]:
"Danger: Remote Access Trojans"
Noun
(-)- 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.
- Bear and bull baiting, dog fights, cockfighting, ratting , and other blood sports were attacked as un-Christian
- The RSPCA were well aware that ratting was legally ambiguous, and when they received a report of a conviction for ratting in Hull in 1868 they doubted the legality of it.
- This was the pit for dog fights, cockfights and rat killing.
