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Ratten vs Latten - What's the difference?

ratten | latten |

As an adjective ratten

is rotten.

As a noun latten is

.

ratten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete, Northern England) To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union.
  • * 1947 , Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Say The Word , p 100:
    • ...derived from the sabot or shoe beneath railway lines. The saboteur was thus a remover of metal shoes, a train-wrecker. I must leave it at that. Meanwhile why not restore ratten to its old place in the Trade Union vocabulary, that is if, in these times of scant, we must endure any such wanton hindrance of the works?
  • * 1867 , Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at by Trades Unions in the Town of Sheffield, Great Britain. . G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867. p. 225:
    • Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?
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    latten

    English

    (wikipedia latten)

    Alternative forms

    * laton

    Noun

  • (archaic, or, historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
  • Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.
    • gold latten

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