| 释义 |
ˈrattening, vbl. n.
[See ratten v.]
The act or practice of abstracting tools, destroying machinery or appliances, etc., as a means of enforcing compliance with the rules of a trade-union, or of venting spite. (Chiefly associated with Sheffield.) Also transf.
1843R. Vaughan Age Grt. Cities 292 The stone is made steady upon its iron spindle by means of wedges, and rattaning consists in driving in one of these wedges so far as slightly to crack the stone. 1870Reade Put yourself, etc. II. 201 You must not construe this that I was any way connected with the rattening. 1889A. Lang Lost Leaders 204 If things go on as they are at present, perhaps we shall hear of literary rattening and picketing.
attrib.1861Illustr. Lond. News 7 Dec. 576/3 Another ‘rattening’ attempt was made in Sheffield. 1880Manch. Guard. 30 Oct., The well known Sheffield rattening case. |