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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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"Rattled" Quotes from Famous Books

... was glad one evening—which would be about the last evening in June, or the first of July—when a hackney coach rattled up to the door of the house in Devonshire Terrace, and four little folk, two girls and two boys, were hurried down, and kissed through the bars of the gate, because their father was too eager to wait till it was opened? ...

— Life of Charles Dickens • Frank Marzials

... she thought while the busy machine rattled down the cloth seams of Jane Restless's new fall suit. The low bent head with its soft wavy hair held her earnest attention, the bending figure, so lissome, yet so frail as it swayed to the motion ...

— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

... doubt of that; still I wish to go on shore with him. You may be assured that no accident shall happen to you," I answered, as I rattled the stove to convince the skipper that I was busy at the work I had ...

— Desk and Debit - or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk • Oliver Optic

... wallowing in blood; the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head if we stirred out. I took my children to go forth; but the Indians shot so thick that the bullets rattled against the house as if one had thrown a handful of stones. We had six stout dogs; but none of them would stir. A bullet went through my side, and another through a child in my arms, and I was made captive, ...

— The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story - of Bacon's Rebellion) • John R. Musick

... up, and shining merrily when the butchers and I, announcing our departure with an engine shriek to sleepy Paris, rattled away for the Cattle Market. Across the country, over the Seine, among a forest of scrubby trees - the hoar frost lying cold in shady places, and glittering in the light - and here we are - at Poissy! Out leap the butchers, who have been ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

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