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rattle
  1. (onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
  2. A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
  3. A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
  4. A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
  5. (dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
  6. (dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
  7. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
  8. (zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
  9. The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; death rattle.
  10. Any plant of the genus Rhinanthus, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.
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  12. Examples:
    1. “In the distance was heard the rapid rattle of a Kalashnikov.”
      “I thought I heard a rattle in the gearshift. Hank, can you look at it again?”
      “He laughed, and I noticed there was a wheezy rattle in his throat.”
rattlebox
  1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
  2. An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), whose ripe seeds rattle in the inflated pod.
  3. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Summer wildflowers include meadow-beauty, marsh pink, wild pea, and round-leaved rattlebox.”
      “The park, the largest in the county system, is home to several protected plants and animals, including the rattlebox, a rare flowering plant, the wood turtle and the northern goshawk.”
      “They shot up about 2 feet taller than the controls, while wiregrass, rattlebox, and butterfly weed decreased in biomass, and sand post oak experienced no change.”
rattler
  1. (chiefly US, informal) A rattlesnake.
  2. A freight train or, (chiefly Britain), a decrepit passenger train.
  3. Something which rattles.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The university veterinary surgeons who frequently prepare animals for experiments gave the rattler an implant of a little plastic loop.”
      “She headed out the door, past the rattler, and up the driveway to lunch with her brother.”
      “Its only troublesome reptile, the rattler, stays away from the high ranges.”
rattling
rattle
  1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the distance was heard the rapid rattle of a Kalashnikov.”
      “I thought I heard a rattle in the gearshift. Hank, can you look at it again?”
      “He laughed, and I noticed there was a wheezy rattle in his throat.”
rattlesnake
  1. Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rattlesnake slithered across the desert, its venomous fangs poised to strike.”
      “In the southeastern US, organized rattlesnake hunts destroy gopher tortoise burrows and lead to the deaths of tortoises.”
      “Pit vipers, including the fer-de-lance and Mojave rattlesnake, have only two pits, one below each eye.”
rattlepod
  1. Any of various plants, including Senna covesii and species of Crotalaria and Astragalus, whose seeds rattle in the pod when shaken.
rattlewort
  1. (plants) Rattlebox.
rattlesnakes
  1. plural of rattlesnake
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  3. Examples:
    1. “You can find this same remarkable system in humans, albatrosses, rattlesnakes, bullfrogs, and all other land vertebrates.”
      “This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads.”
      “At a lot of these roundups, the handlers allow children to touch the tails of rattlesnakes.”
rattlepods
  1. plural of rattlepod
rattleboxes
  1. plural of rattlebox
rattlings
rattlers
  1. plural of rattler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It had rained briefly that evening, a hard downpour that meant the rattlers would be out, having been flushed from their holes.”
      “Brightly plumaged, these jays range just north of the Mexican border, in areas such as Hidalgo County, Texas, home of sizable rattlers.”
      “The quail and chicks go to the indigos, cribos, gators, corn, kings, ratsnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, Timber rattlers, and diamondbacks.”
rattles
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