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To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious
noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken
together; to clatter. |
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To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering;
as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. |
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To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and
idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour. |
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To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to
rattle a chain. |
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To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. |
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Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's
judgment; to rattle a player in a game. |
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To scold; to rail at. |
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A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the
rattle of a drum. |
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Noisy, rapid talk. |
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An instrument with which a rattling sound is made;
especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken. |
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A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. |
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A scolding; a sharp rebuke. |
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Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to
produce a rattling sound. |
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The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing
through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly
observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death
rattle. See R/le. |
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