Meanings
- historicalobsoleteA ratcatcher.
It̃m pᵈ to yᵉ seid Rattoner for leyeng of yᵉ cham's for ratts
1834 [1521], Daniel Gurney, Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the Lestranges of Hunstanton, from A.D. 1519 to A.D. 1578, page 282 more examples
Also, for 8d. paid to a rattoner, who destroyed the rattons (rattones, rats) in the chambers of the Fellows...
1874, Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Volume 2, page 129Some of the children would grow up to be Rattoner's ^([sic]) / This was never a fancy job, but it paid the bills
2014, Tiffany Simar, The Window, page 146
Origin
- Middle Englishratoner
- Englishrattoner
From Middle English ratoner; equivalent to ratton + -er.
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