ratten

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English - Turkish
sabotaj yapmak
{f} sabote etmek [fabr.]
{f} makineleri bozmak
sabote etmek
English - English
To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute

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?.

To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike
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