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To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

Example: Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.

To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.

To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

Example: I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.

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

Rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

Lively, quick (speech, pace).

(intensifier) good, fine.

Example: a rattling good lunch

The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.

Any of the cross ropes between the shrouds, which form a net like ropework, allowing sailors to climb up towards the top of the mast.