Ratting

ratting
    n 1: to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law
         (usually in return for favors) [syn: {informing},
         {ratting}]
    

Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ratted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Ratting}.]
   1. In English politics, to desert one's party from interested
      motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own
      advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on
      other conditions, than those established by a trades
      union.
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            Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having
            ratted, solely by his inability to follow the
            friends of his early days.            --De Quincey.
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   2. To catch or kill rats.
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   2. To be an informer (against an associate); to inform (on an
      associate); to squeal; -- used commonly in the phrase to
      rat on.
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Ratting \Rat"ting\ (r[a^]t"t[i^]ng), n.
   1. The conduct or practices of one who rats. See {Rat}, v.
      i., 1. --Sydney Smith.
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   2. The low 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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