different between rattan vs ratten

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rotan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???tan/, /??atan/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???tæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

rattan (countable and uncountable, plural rattans)

1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
2. (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
3. (by extension) A cane made from this material.
   • 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula

     He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization

     […] the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline […]

Translations

Verb

rattan (third-person singular simple present rattans, present participle rattaning, simple past and past participle rattaned)

1. (transitive) To beat with a rattan cane.
   • 1915, Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary (volume 51, page 56)

     Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]

Further reading

• rattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Tartan, Tatran, tantra, tartan

English

Etymology

From Provincial English ratten (“rat”), i.e. to do mischief like a rat.

Verb

ratten (third-person singular simple present rattens, present participle rattening, simple past and past participle rattened)

1. (obsolete, Northern England) To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union.
   • 1867, Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at by Trades Unions in the Town of Sheffield, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Trades Unions. G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867. p. 225:

     Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?

   • 1947, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Say The Word, p 100:

     […] derived from the sabot or shoe beneath railway lines. The saboteur was thus a remover of metal shoes, a train-wrecker. I must leave it at that. Meanwhile why not restore ratten to its old place in the Trade Union vocabulary, that is if, in these times of scant, we must endure any such wanton hindrance of the works?

Anagrams

• Arnett, attern, natter, tarten, treant

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Noun

ratten

1. Plural form of rat

Anagrams

• natter, tarten

Middle English

Verb

ratten

1. to tear apart
   • 1402, "The Reply of Friar Daw Topias":

     renden and ratyn

References

• “ratten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Noun

ratten

1. definite singular of ratt

Anagrams

• tanter, tentar