Synonyms:
rattle, rattling, rale
Meaning: a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rattle
Meaning: make short successive sounds
Synonyms:
rattle
Meaning: shake and cause to make a rattling noise
Usage examples
There came a rattle of crockery from within.
Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.
He tried to call to them, but evoked a mere rattle from his throat.
Ned Land hadn't missed his target. This was the monster's death rattle.
I could hear his teeth rattle in his head, but he had not yet surrendered.
'Cheer to show them we aren't afraid, and rattle the daggers to make more noise.
Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.
The next she was at the windows and the slats were closed with a rattle like a volley of firearms.
The rattle of mess-wagons, driven by the camp cook and followed by the bed-wagon, was heard from all directions.
He heard faintly the sound of voices, and the clank and rattle which many men with weapons cannot keep from making now and then.