rattening

English
Rattening: One of those disgraceful outrages known as "rattening" was perpetrated on Saturday night, at a brickyard worked by a man named Wood, in Sheffield. Not content with destroying several thousand bricks, they had been at considerable trouble in carrying all the barrows, planks, &c., and even the brickmaker's table, to a considerable distance, and had thrown them down an unused pit-shaft. Wood is not a member of the Brickmakers' Union.
A case of rattening, described on page 4 of the Aberdeen People's Journal, 18 June 1864

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Noun

rattening (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, Northern England) The practice of sabotaging machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute

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