Rattle

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Rattle

Rattle : கலகலவென சத்தமிடு

Rattle definition

Intransitive verb.

  1. To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
  2. To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
  3. 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.

Transitive verb.

  1. To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
  2. To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
  3. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
  4. To scold; to rail at.

Noun.

  1. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
  2. Noisy, rapid talk.
  3. An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
  4. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
  5. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
  6. Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
  7. 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.