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Rattle

noun

A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders). Synonyms: rale, rattling.

A baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken.

Loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail.

verb

(past & past part. rattled; pres. part. rattling)

Make short successive sounds.

Shake and cause to make a rattling noise.

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... death of his late commander, but mingled signs of grief with them. At one moment bugles rang out cheerily, at the next they were answered by melancholy trumpet notes, and the wailing fife was heard at intervals between the lively rattle of the drum and the clash of arms. From one mast-head hung a Turkish banner reversed, and from another a long black streamer, the ends of which dipped in the water. In this manner he entered the river of London in his English ship, leaving the Portuguese ...

— The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... this magnificent building, and which promised to be most airy and quiet; the river running at the bottom of the long street in which it was situated, the theatre before it, and the great square left at its side, with all its rattle of carts and wheelbarrows, and screaming commissioners. In the handsome, clean Hotel de Nantes we were accordingly deposited, and had reason to congratulate ourselves on our choice while we staid ...

— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello

... proa descended with a rattle and bang, the man at the oar gave it several vigorous sweeps, and the strange-looking but astonishingly swift craft came to rest almost in the same position that the schooner Coral ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis

... grip when suddenly and without the least warning there started a tremendous racket such as he had noticed came to pass when that hogshead started rolling down the grade, and the stones with which it was loaded began to rattle about inside. ...

— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas

... rightly know, but I'll warrant Mr. Prigg'll have a good un—he knows what he be about; and all I hopes is, he'll rattle it into that there Snooks, for if ever there wur a bad un ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

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