Rattle(v. i.)
- To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
Rattle(v. i.)
- To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
Rattle(v. i.)
- 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.
Rattle(v. t.)
- To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
Rattle(v. t.)
- To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
Rattle(v. t.)
- Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
Rattle(n.)
- Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
Rattle(n.)
- 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.