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/rˈætəl ɔf/ Listen

verb

Rattle v. t.

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

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."

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

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."

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Etymology of 'Rattle off'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rattle off" Quotes from Famous Books

... school—it's all the same. Don't interrupt me, Fred. When my mind is full I must rattle off the speech somehow." ...

— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... great improvement is noticeable in this respect, and Scott is coming to be regarded as (for school purposes) our greatest historian. In some schools, as Lord Avebury has hinted, it was formerly thought that pupils knew history adequately when they could rattle off a list of dates and tell something of the deeds and misdeeds of a set of unhappy persons who masqueraded as statesmen and courtiers. Such unedifying farce has nothing to do with history, which is a serious, instructive, and all-embracing study. The social life of the ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... Tirza Hemphill, before she learned to rattle off her table of dry measure, as other school children do, had discovered its scale for herself, by practical application. A series of measures was set out in a row, from pint to bushel, while a great box of shelled corn stood by, and she was ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... amused, but went out, and we heard him rattle off to go round the paddock. The doctor went upstairs, and buckled on a long-necked pair of old-fashioned spurs, and Mrs. Knightley walked away like a woman in a dream to her own room, and soon afterwards returned in her riding-habit ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... rattle off those Indian names that I cannot understand at all, Just as if they were everyday Hatties and ...

— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry