(onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
(music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
(dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
(now rare) Trivial chatter; gossip.
(dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
The noise produced in the throat by air passing through mucus which the lungs struggle to clear.
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel - sometimes occurs as a person nears death; death rattle.
Any plant of the genus Rhinanthus, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind