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