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/ˈrʌtl/, U.S. /ˈrəd(ə)l/ Now chiefly English regional (northern).
A rattling noise, especially in the throat.
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1713 Bp. G. Burnet Royal Martyr 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.
1778 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 408/1 Ruttle is that noise people make in the throat when they breathe with difficulty, especially when dying.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Ruttles, a noise, occasioned by a difficulty of breathing.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood Gloss. 396 Persons are said to have the ‘death-rattle’ or ‘ruttle’ in their dying moments.
1897 M. M. Dodge St. Nicholas Sept. 906 The heavy ruttle of the carts filled the air with life and cheer.
1901 J. Prior Forest Folk 28 I'd as lieve hear the death-ruttle.
1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. s.v. Ruttle, the sound heard in gasping for breath. A noise in the chest.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. Ruttle,..the death rattle.
1998 N. Paech Skinscape Voyeur 95 The end into ruttle of wood. against thunk.
2003 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 4 Feb. Many parents and doctors mislabel sounds such as ruttles, or non-noisy symptoms, as a wheeze.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
ruttlen.2
/ˈrʌtl/, U.S. /ˈrəd(ə)l/ Mining. Now rare.
In plural. Cracks roughly parallel to the plane of an adjacent fault; ground characterized by these.
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1876 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. ix. 363 Cracks roughly parallel to the plane of the fault, which are sometimes called ‘Ruttles’ by quarrymen.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 209 Ruttles, shattered and faulty ground running roughly parallel to the plane of a fault.
1926 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 70 204 The coal is then said to form ‘ruttles’ or ‘shuttles’, and our miners regard their occurrence as harbingers of an approach to faults.
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ruttlev.
/ˈrʌtl/, U.S. /ˈrəd(ə)l/ Now chiefly regional.
intransitive. To rattle; esp. to make a rattling noise in the throat.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle
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a1400 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 250 (MED) Wonne..þin teth ratilet..and þi þrote ruteletz, Al to late..þen is te wayn atte yate.
a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiae Antiquae (1845) I. 54 Alde man ay slepand; his twa membres waxes calde agayne kynde..if he rutills: this er the takenynges of dethe.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 17 (MED) Fer with-in nyght come an hoste..on euery syde Smytynge vp the hoste..wyth wepyn ryngynge, Speris and sparris rutlynge [Dublin ruthlynge] to-giddyr.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hv If one of thy cooparteners gin, to rutle in the throte.
1651 R. Watkins Newes from Dead 2 The Coffin being opened, she was observed to breath, and in breathing..obscurely to ruttle.
1704 C. Povey Holy Thoughts on God made Man xxiii. 504 My Throat ruttles, my Spirits faint, and my Soul and Body are just upon the point of being separated.
1791 Departure 11 Lo fate prevails, severer pangs arrest, And life, retreating, ruttles in his breast.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Ruttle, to breathe with difficulty and with noise in the throat, like a dying person.
1900 R. M. Gilchrist Courtesy Dame xviii. 138 And then his face changed, and he began to ruttle in his throat.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 251/2 To ruttle is to give a rumbling snarl in the back of the throat.
2005 D. Fulmer Jass (2006) ii. 14 On other nights..he would travel only as far as the banks of the river,where he would stand watching the ships and barges ruttle past, one after another, carrying their heavy cargoes.
Derivatives
ˈruttling n. and adj.
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a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 277 (MED) Þan was rotlyng [v.r. rutlynge] in Rome, robbyng of brynnyes.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 22 (MED) The bolk about whan þei goo to Rutte not as þe hert doþ bute moche lowere þan þe herte and Ruttelyng [Fr. gargatant] in the þrote.
1538 D. Lindsay Complaynte & Test. Popiniay sig. Dij I am a blak monke sayd the rutland [1592 Rutill and] rauine.
1678 J. Young in R. Hooke Lect. & Coll. 105 Those symptoms became more fierce, depaupering his spirits, prostrating his appetite, disquieting his sleep with dreams, a Dyspnoea, and rutling violent Cough.
1756 C. Smart Goodness of Supreme Being 10 Tho' their throats coarse ruttling hurt the ear, They mean it all for music.
1794 J. Rowlin Compl. Cow-doctor 202 It stops and impedes the breathing of the animal, insomuch that it causes a snoring and ruttling in the head.
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. ix. 111 Little or no ruttling having been heard in the tube.
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales III. viii. 75 The ruttling of the smoker's pipe in the chimney-corner.
1911 H. Van Dyke Poems 147 Still I turned The bowsprit west, and felt among the floes Of ruttling ice along the Greenland coast.
2003 Recent Adv. Pediatrics 20 3 As many as 48% of children wheeze during the first 6 years of life, while other sounds such as stridor, snoring, snuffling and ruttling are all relatively common.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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