Definitions for the word, rattle

(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

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

(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

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

(n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

(v. i.) 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.

(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.

(v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

(v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

(v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

(v. t.) To scold; to rail at.


59 words found in the Scrabble word, rattle



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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