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English
Noun
rattoon (plural rattoons)
- Alternative spelling of ratoon (“rattan cane”)
1660 September 23 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 13th, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume I, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 240:[...] Mr. Hawly did give me a little black rattoon, painted and gilt.
Verb
rattoon (third-person singular simple present rattoons, present participle rattooning, simple past and past participle rattooned)
- Alternative spelling of ratoon
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Finnish
Noun
rattoon
- illative singular of ratto