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What does ratten mean?

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Verb
  1. (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.
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Chris Ratten and Jeremy Woodside, from corporate recovery firm RSM Tenon, were appointed as joint administrators on Tuesday.
Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?
The northern part of the village centred on a large green is called Ratten Row.
Meanwhile, Carlton coach Brett Ratten is delighted to have star man Chris Judd fit and firing again.

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