Definitions for rattles

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rattles rat·tle

Spelling: [rat-l]

IPA: /ˈræt l/

Rattles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 241 anagrams from letters in rattles (aelrstt).

Definitions for rattles

noun

1. a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as from the collision of hard bodies.
2. an instrument contrived to make a rattling sound, especially a baby's toy filled with small pellets that rattle when shaken.
3. the series of horny, interlocking elements at the end of the tail of a rattlesnake, with which it produces a rattling sound.
4. a rattling sound in the throat, as the death rattle.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to rattle:
2. to drive, send, bring, etc., especially rapidly, with rattling sounds:
3. to utter or perform in a rapid or lively manner:
4. to disconcert or confuse (a person):
5. Hunting. to stir up (a cover).
6. to furnish with ratlines (usually followed by down).

verb (used without object)

1. to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions:
2. to move or go, especially rapidly, with such sounds:
3. to talk rapidly; chatter:

Origin of rattles

1250-1300; Middle English ratelen (v.), ratele (noun) (cognate with Dutch ratelen, German rasseln); imitative

Examples for rattles

Then Massot rattled on, telling all there was to tell about Fonsegue.

rattled, Harris fled to New York, leaving his vast estate to his protégé.

The crisis in neighbouring Ukraine has rattled Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime.

It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.

Suddenly she dropped the brush; it rattled and spun on the polished floor.

I might have paid them at the time, but it was all so unexpected and so sudden,—it rattled me, quite.

In that book, Hoving made many claims that rattled the gatekeepers of the art world.

He admitted that repeated questions about the currency and the economy had rattled voters.

Furious blasts clutched at the windows, and rattled them like castanets.

He rattled the snaffle in his mouth with nervous indecision—he had a notion to try it.