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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

... heard that cry and it reached to the hidden depth of the girl's nature. It chilled her, then set her blood racing hotly. She got up and went to the window—it was moonlight in The Gap and the night was full of a rising wind that rattled the vines ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... "Waverley," of which Cooper wrote in part: "Ten days after the arrival of Sir Walter Scott I ordered a carriage one morning. I had got as far as the lower flight to the door when another carriage-steps rattled, and presently a large, heavy man appeared in the door of the hotel. He was gray, limped a little, walking with a cane. We passed on the stairs, bowing. I was about to enter the carriage when I fancied the face and form were known to me, and it flashed on my mind that the visit ...

— James Fenimore Cooper • Mary E. Phillips

... rattled urgently, to an accompaniment of feet shuffling on the stone; and immediately—if he were to make a logical deduction from the rasping and scraping sound within the door-casing—the bell-pull was violently agitated, without, however, educing any response from ...

— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance

... was brought close to the hole, and the bones rattled down into that black pit. The two skulls struck against each other; a spark, not likely to be seen by those standing near, was doubtless exchanged between the head that made 'The Philosophical Dictionary' and the head that made 'The Social ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard

... self-contained nor sober by nature. When they got back to his rooms, he really hardly knew what to do to give vent to his lightness of heart; and Hardy, though self-contained and sober enough in general, was on this occasion almost as bad as his friend. They rattled on, talked out the thing which came uppermost, whatever the subject might chance to be; but whether grave or gay, it always ended after a minute or two in jokes not always good, and chaff, and laughter. The poor captain was a little puzzled at first, and made one or two endeavours to ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

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