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- English Word Ratter Definition One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
- English Word Ratter Definition Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.
- English Word Rattinet Definition A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
- English Word Ratting Definition of Rat
- English Word Ratting Definition The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.
- English Word Ratting Definition The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
- English Word Rattle Definition To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
- English Word Rattle Definition To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
- English Word Rattle Definition To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
- English Word Rattle Definition To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
- English Word Rattle Definition To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- English Word Rattle Definition Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
- English Word Rattle Definition To scold; to rail at.
- English Word Rattle Definition A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
- English Word Rattle Definition Noisy, rapid talk.
- English Word Rattle Definition An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- English Word Rattle Definition A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- English Word Rattle Definition A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- English Word Rattle Definition Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- English Word Rattle Definition The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.