rattle🔊

To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

(figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.

To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

(obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

(obsolete) To scold; to rail at.

To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.

To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with ''on'' or ''away''.

(UK, slang) To experience withdrawal from drugs.

Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.

A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.

(music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.

A device which produces a loud rattling sound, especially one having a ratchet mechanism and spun round on a handle.

(zoology) The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound.

(onomatopoeia) A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.

(rare) Noisy, rapid talk; babble.

(now rare) Trivial chatter; gossip.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

(obsolete) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

A rough noise produced in the throat by air passing through obstructed airways; croup; a death rattle.

(historical units of measure) A former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg). +