rattle

rattle
1 verb
1 (I, T) to shake, or make something shake, with quick repeated knocking noises: The windows rattled in the wind. | The beggar was rattling coins in an old mug.
2 (I) to move quickly, making a rattling noise
(+ along/past/over etc): The cart rattled along the stony road.
3 (T) informal to make someone lose confidence or become nervous: Keep calm - don't let yourself get rattled. | It was an old trick of his - rattling people by getting their names wrong.
4 rattle sb's cage spoken humorous to make someone feel angry or annoyed: Who rattled your cage?
—see also: sabre­rattling rattle around phrasal verb (I) informal to be in a house, office etc that is bigger then you need it to be: We rattle around a bit now that the children have all left. rattle sth off phrasal verb (T) to say something quickly and easily, from memory: He rattled off the poem. rattle on phrasal verb (I) informal to talk quickly for a long time, about things that are not interesting: Nancy would rattle on for hours about her grandchildren. rattle through sth phrasal verb (T) informal to do something very quickly because you want to finish it as soon as possible: She rattled through her speech in five minutes. 2 noun
1 (singular) the noise that you hear when the parts of something knock against each other
(+ of): the rattle of chains
2 (C) a baby's toy that makes this noise
3 (C) a wooden instrument that makes a loud knocking noise, used by people watching football games
—see also: death rattle

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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