To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See Râle.
also called snap, the noise that results from shaking or crumpling a piece of paper caused by a combination of the sheet stiffness and bulk
a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle"
a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
make short successive sounds
shake and cause to make a rattling noise
sound produced by shaking a sheet of paper indicating its hardness.
Crackling sound produced by shaking or crumbling a piece of paper to demonstrate its quality of rigidity. Example: bond papers rattle; mimeographic papers do not. Sufficient reason why scripts for use on radio programs are typed on mimeograph paper.
The sound produced by shaking a piece of paper, indicating the hardness of the sheet.
a hollow container filled with small objects which rattle when shaken.
Noise that a rooster makes after taking a blow to the lungs.
A rattle is a percussion instrument. It consists of a hollow body filled with small uniform solid objects, like sand or nuts. Rhythmical shaking of this instrument produces repetitive, rather dry timbre noises.