An instrument with which a rattling sound is made;
especially, a child’s toy that rattles when shaken.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one’s
judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

Noisy, rapid talk.

To scold; to rail at.

To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

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.

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious
noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken
together; to clatter.

To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to
rattle a chain.

A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the
rattle of a drum.