Crossword-Solution: RATTLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rattle | v. i. | To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. |
| Rattle | v. i. | To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. |
| Rattle | v. i. | 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. |
| Rattle | v. t. | To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. |
| Rattle | v. t. | To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. |
| Rattle | v. t. | Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. |
| Rattle | v. t. | To scold; to rail at. |
| Rattle | n. | A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. |
| Rattle | n. | Noisy, rapid talk. |
| Rattle | n. | An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken. |
| Rattle | n. | A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. |
| Rattle | n. | A scolding; a sharp rebuke. |
| Rattle | n. | Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound. |
| Rattle | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RATTLE | anagram | ARTLET, LATTER, TARTLE, TATLER |
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Sentences with RATTLE (5)
The rattle of her wagon was lost in the howling of the wind, but her lantern, held firmly between her feet, made a moving point of light along the highway, going deeper and deeper into the dark country.
The rattle of the quarter-jack again from its niche, its blow for three-quarters, its fussy retreat, were almost painfully abrupt, and caused many of the congregation to start palpably.
And swish, bang, rattle, swish! Just as they are fumbling over it, _swish_ comes the Heat-Ray, and, behold! man has come back to his own.” For a while the imaginative daring of the artilleryman, and the tone of assurance and courage he assumed, completely dominated my mind.
The morning after the sociable, Tillie, curled up in bed, was roused by the rattle of the milk cart down the street.
Even as he spoke, a distant clatter was heard of an approaching coach; louder and louder it grew, one or two shouts became distinguishable, then the rattle of horses’ hoofs on the uneven cobble stones, and the next moment a stable boy had thrown open the coffee-room door and rushed in excitedly.
Quotes with RATTLE (3)
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 151 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).