Definition of Rattle

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Rattle

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

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.

To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

To scold; to rail at.

A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

Noisy, rapid talk.

An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

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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Rattle Quotations

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
Lisa Marie Presley

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
E. L. Konigsburg

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Danny DeVito

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Georg Buchner

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
Alexander Haig

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
Charlie Haden

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
H. G. Bohn

Rattle Translations

rattle in Afrikaans is klik
rattle in Dutch is klakken, klappen, kletteren, klikken
rattle in German is rasseln, geknatter, scheppern
rattle in Latin is crepundia
rattle in Portuguese is chocalho
rattle in Spanish is charla
rattle in Swedish is skramla, skallra, rassla, rossla, rossling

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