Clues for the word "RATTLE"

We've had 122 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 266 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on May 17, 2026.

Definition of rattle

v. i. - To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
v. i. - To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
v. i. - 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.
v. t. - To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
v. t. - To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
v. t. - Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
v. t. - To scold; to rail at.
n. - A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
n. - Noisy, rapid talk.
n. - An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
n. - A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
n. - A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
n. - Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
n. - 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.