French Meaning of rattle

hochet

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Definitions and Meaning of rattle in English

Wordnet

rattle (n)

a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken

loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail

Wordnet

rattle (v)

make short successive sounds

shake and cause to make a rattling noise

Webster

rattle (v. i.)

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.

Webster

rattle (v. t.)

To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

To scold; to rail at.

Webster

rattle (n.)

A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

Noisy, rapid talk.

An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

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 R/le.

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