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rattle (third-person singular simple presentrattles, present participlerattling, simple past and past participlerattled)
(transitive,ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
to rattle a chain
Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.
2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC:
It was a deflating end to the drama for the hosts and they appeared ruffled, with Bolton going close to a leveller when Johan Elmander rattled the bar with a header from Matt Taylor’s cross.
“Tut!” said old Bittlesham. “Tut is right”, I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. “But if you haven’t dropped a parcel over the race,” I said, “why are you looking so rattled?”
That United were rattled, mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.
2023 February 17, Erika Solomon, Christopher F. Schuetze, Julian E. Barnes, “A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
The German authorities are still trying to determine what damage their mole may have done. But the discovery of a double agent has rattled German political circles.
(intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.
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The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.
(zoology) The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound.
The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.
1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Iohn Lichfield and William Turner,, →OCLC:
All this adoe about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceipt.
‘Sir James is a young Man of an amiable disposition, and excellent character;—a little too much of the Rattle perhaps, but a year or two will rectify that[…].’
It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle.