Dictionary Entry

rattling

To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

In a Sentence

“Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. rattlingsound rattlingaround rattlingoff rattlingdown rattlingrattling camerattling saber

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Poetry examples for “rattling”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And men could hear his armour still,
Rattling through all the grove and hill. 40

And the nigger all the time was moving round the table,
Rattling the silver things faster and faster--
"Yes sah! Yas sah, soon as I'se able

And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder.
Hark, hark! the horrid sound

Poured in her port broadside,
Rattling his iron hide,

The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,
The rattling musketry, the clashing blade;
And ever and anon, in tones of thunder,

Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;

And guide their plundering steps aright.
Rattling away in printless tracks,
Some, housed on beetles' glossy backs,

The bird-boy’s pealing horn is loudly blow’d;
The waggons jostle on with rattling sound;
And hogs and geese now throng the dusty road,

And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder.
Hark, hark! the horrid sound

And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder.
Hark, hark! the horrid sound