rattons

While frighted rattons backward leuk, [rats, look]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

It did not matter whether _she_ believed in Grey Ladies with rain-drops pattering through them or not -- other people did, and she would not be banished "among the clocks and rattons" -- no, not for double wages!

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

I sent to the publishers of _Glasgow Delineated_, {236} which was printed at the University press in 1826, a contradiction of the usual origin of the name adopted in that city, showing the impossibility of the expression bearing any reference to the dissoluteness or immorality of the former residents, and also contradicting its having any thing to do with "rats," or "rattons," _Scotticè_; although, in 1458, the "Vicus

Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 Various

Countries with gentlemen esteemed my betters -- convinces me that if a big enough horde fall on from the rim of our ashet, as I call it, they might sweep us into the loch like rattons. "

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"One Sunday mornin ', just afore th' sarvice began, some o 'th' singers slipt a hawp'oth o 'grey peighs an' two young rattons into old Thwittler double-bass; an 'as soon as he began a-playin', th 'little things squeak't an' scutter't about terribly i 'th' inside, till thrut o 'out

Th' Barrel Organ Edwin Waugh 1853