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▪ I. ruttle, n.1 Now dial.|ˈrʌt(ə)l| [f. ruttle v.] A rattling noise in the throat.
1713Burnet Serm. 175 The last Agonies, the fixed Eyes, and the dismal Ruttle,..tell all those about the Dying-Bed, that he..is now going to his Home. 1838Holloway Prov. Dict., Ruttles, a noise, occasioned by a difficulty of breathing. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds Gloss. 396 Persons are said to have the ‘death-rattle’ or ‘ruttle’ in their dying moments. ▪ II. ˈruttle, n.2 (See quot. 1876.)
1876A. H. Green Phys. Geol. ix. 363 Cracks roughly parallel to the plane of the fault, which are sometimes called ‘Ruttles’ by quarrymen. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 209. ▪ III. ruttle, v. Now dial.|ˈrʌt(ə)l| Forms: 4 rutele, 5 ruthle, 5–6 rutill, rutle, 7, 9 ruttle. [= MLG. rutelen, prob. of imitative origin: cf. rottle v. and rattle v.] intr. To rattle; to make a rattling noise in the throat.
a1400Pol., Rel., & L. Poems 250 Þin teth ratilet.., and þi þrote ruteletȝ. 14..in Reliq. Antiq. I. 54 If he rutills: this er the takenynges of dethe. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 16 With wepne ryngynge, speres and sparthes ruthlynge [v.r. rutlynge] to-geddre. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. ii. v. H v, If one of thy cooparteners gin to rutle in the throte. 1651R. Watkins Newes fr. Dead 2 The Coffin being opened, she was observed to breath, and in breathing..obscurely to ruttle. Ibid. 3 Shee ruttled more than before, and seemed obscurely to cough. 1828–in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Linc., Craven, Leeds). Hence ˈruttling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1400MS. Cott. Calig. A ii. fol. 113 Then was rutlynge in Rome, and rubbynge of helmes. 1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 668, I am ane blak Monk, said the rutlande [1592 rutilland] Ravin. 1857Borrow Romany Rye xl, Little or no ruttling having been heard in the tube. 1862― Wales III. viii. 75 The ruttling of the smoker's pipe in the chimney-corner. |