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ratton ‎(plural rattons)

(now Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A rat. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1390, William Landland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:
  Wiþ þat ran þere a route · of ratones at ones / And smale mys with hem · mo þen a þousande.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley:
  'A Yorkshire burr,' he affirmed, 'was as much better than a cockney's lisp as a bull's bellow than a ratton’s squeak.'