noun noisy, rapid talk.
2. rattle ·noun a scolding; a sharp rebuke.
3. rattle ·noun a noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
4. rattle ·vt to scold; to rail at.
5. rattle ·vt to assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
6. rattle ·noun a rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
7. rattle ·vt to cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
8. rattle ·noun any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
9. rattle ·vi to drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
10. rattle ·noun an instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
11. rattle ·vt hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
12. rattle ·vi to make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
13. rattle ·vi 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.
14. rattle ·noun 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 r/le.