rattener

(ˈrætənə)

1. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a person who rattens

2. (Historical Terms) a person who rattens

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"The Union Wheel" possesses this advantage over real life, that it brings the rattener and blower up to speedy justice, and if it be the means of teaching all who feel inclined to do the same kind of work that their fate will be similar, it will do a greater amount of good than the author in his most sanguine moments could have anticipated.

However, the complimentary review in the Sheffield Independent (18 April 1870) glossed over the fact that Brumley, who could be described as a "rattener and blower up", is not brought to "speedy justice".

The challenge of using theatre as social and political intervention in nineteenth-century Sheffield: Joseph Fox's The Union Wheel