ratlin, ratline, ratling, rattlin, rattline or rattling /ratˈlin, ratˈling/

Any of the small lines forming steps of the rigging of ships

rattle /ratˈl/

1. To make a quick succession or alternation of short hard sounds
2. To move along rapidly making such a sound
3. To chatter briskly and emptily

1. To cause to rattle
2. To fluster, disconcert or irritate (informal)
3. To assail with rattling (Shakespeare)
4. To utter glibly, as by rote (often with off)
5. To perform or push through to completion in a rapid, perfunctory or noisy manner
6. To scold loudly (obsolete)

1. An instrument or toy producing a rattling sound when shaken
2. An instrument for making a whirring noise, formerly used by watchmen
3. A similar device used at festive gatherings
4. A dice-box (old slang)
5. A plant whose seeds rattle in the capsule, applied to two scrophulaceous plants, yellow rattle or cock's-comb (Rhinanthus crista-galli) and red rattle or marsh lousewort (Pedicularis palustris)
6. The rings of a rattlesnake's tail
7. A vivacious prattler
8. A spell of lively chattering
9. The sound of rattling
10. The crackling of paper
11. A sound in the throat of a dying person (also death rattle)
12. Racket

rattˈler noun

1. A rattle
2. A coach (old slang)
3. A rattlesnake (informal)
4. A telling blow (informal)
5. An excellent specimen of the kind (informal)

rattˈling noun adjective

1. Making a rattle
2. Smart, lively
3. Strikingly good (informal)

Strikingly

rattˈly adjective (rattˈlier; rattˈliest)

1. Making a rattling noise
2. Inclined to rattle

rattˈlebag noun

1. A rattle or rattling apparatus
2. A person who causes commotion (Scot)

rattˈlebrain, rattˈlehead or rattˈlepate noun

A shallow, voluble, volatile person

rattˈle-brained, rattˈle-headed or rattˈle-pated adjective

rattˈlesnake noun

A venomous American pit-viper (genus Crotalus) with rattling horny rings on the end of its tail

rattˈletrap noun (informal)

1. A contemptuous name for any apparatus, equipment, finery, bric-à-brac
2. A rickety vehicle
3. The mouth

rattle someone's cage (informal)

To stir someone up to anger or excitement

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