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/rˈætlɪŋ/ /rˈætəlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Rattle v. t.

1.

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

2.

To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. "Sound but another (drum), and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear."

3.

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

4.

To scold; to rail at.

To rattle off.

(a)

To tell glibly or noisily; as, to rattle off a story.

(b)

To rail at; to scold. "She would sometimes rattle off her servants sharply."

Rattle v. i. (past & past part. rattled; pres. part. rattling)

1.

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. "And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms." "'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street."

2.

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

3.

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. (Colloq.)

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"Rattling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Torpenhow heard his name called by a voice that he did not know,—in the rattling accents of ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... up through it, dark, and yet glistering in the moon. A light here and there in a house: another here and there in a vessel, unseen in the dark. The echo of the gun from hill to hill. Wild voices from shore and sea. The snorting of the steamer, the rattling of the chain through the hawse-hole; and on deck, and under the quarter, strange gleams of red light amid pitchy darkness, from engines, galley fires, lanthorns; and black folk and white ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

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— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... under him, and several of the officers and men fell,—among them the brave Colonel Haslet, who was mortally wounded. In the confusion thus unfortunately caused, the Americans could hear sharp commands of the English officers, then the rattling of steel on the gun-barrels, and the next moment the red-coated men broke out of the smoke and, unchecked by a scattering fire from the Americans, gallantly rushed up at them with fixed bayonets. There were unfortunately ...

— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... cough that tells its tale of the hopeless state within. She had discarded her opera-cloak, and stood there, her shoulders, back, neck, all bare and naked; tres decolletee, as the French would say; shivering palpably; imparting the idea of a skeleton with rattling bones. Sir Edmund Hautley, quitting Decima, took her hand compassionately and led her to ...

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