ratting

noun

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The blood sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
“Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest. A terrier — the best of ratting dogs — was placed into a pit with 50 rats.”
“Bear and bull baiting, dog fights, cockfighting, ratting, and other blood sports were attacked as un-Christian […]”
A vocation involving the pest control of rats, typically using a working terrier.
Desertion of one's principles.
Working as a scab, against trade union policies.

present participle and gerund of rat
“Don't go ratting to the police about what happened.”