Meaning

• A sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.

  "I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard."

• 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.

• A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.

• Noisy, rapid talk.

• Trivial chatter; gossip.

• A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

• A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

• Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

  "The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints."

• 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.

Meaning

• To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

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

• To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.

• To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

  "I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling."

• To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.

• To scold; to rail at.

• To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.

  "We rattled along for a couple of miles."

• To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.

  "She rattled on for an hour."