noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a rule, however, a rattler avoids contact with people and will strike only if cornered.
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But on the trail Sheila rides there isn't a long horn or rattler in sight.
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Florida rattlers would rear up and bite a man too blind and tired to kick before reaching down.
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I study a run-over rattler I take to be dead until it suddenly slithers away.
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One lady was on her morning walk and picked up a rattler she saw on the road.
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The rattler is behaving very strangely, in other words.
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The third woman went to pull a weed in her front yard and a rattler bit her hand.