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Snake with a warning sound
Answer for the clue "Snake with a warning sound ", 7 letters:
rattler
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "one who talks overmuch," agent noun from rattle (v.). From c.1300 as a surname. As short for rattlesnake , 1827.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rattler ( Gustav Krueger ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . He first appeared in Captain America vol. 1 #310 (October 1985), created by writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Paul Neary . The name Rattler ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rattlesnake \Rat"tle*snake`\ (r[a^]t"t'l*sn[=a]k`), n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona , or Sistrurus ; sometimes also called rattler . They have a series of horny interlocking ...
Usage examples of rattler.
But there certainly grew up from that moment a feeling among such men as Erle and Rattler that care was necessary, that the House, taken as a whole, was not in a condition to be manipulated with easy freedom, and that Sir Orlando must be made to understand that he was not strong enough to depend on such jauntiness.
And certain members of the Government, Phineas Finn, for instance, Barrington Erle, and Mr Rattler were on the committee of the club.
A gut-roar came from the Rattler as it digested, its ceramo-ribs contracting with pops and groans as it forced navvys into its innards.
So their band had waited until the Rattler was fully distended, lying like a gorged tube of scratched aluminum, beginning to excrete ingots of ore.
Staring at the gorging Rattler, Killeen felt the old struggle within himself.
To find a Rattler obliviously doing its job in this surrounding undercut their unvoiced dream.
Even in the first moment of glimpsing the Rattler he had thought it blandly evil, a scene without any possible protagonist.
The navvys being eaten as they cried for their distant protector were no less an ancient enemy than the Rattler which digested them.
Ledroff had summoned up the firm rhythms to get them quickly away from the Rattler, damping fears.
The Rattler moved with a coiling and recoiling motion, treads grinding beneath.
He knew the Rattler would only later discover she was not metal throughout, like a mechthing.
The Rattler undoubtedly saw them all as a covey of defenseless metal-sheeted beings and mistook them for free sources of cheap ore.
The four-sided monument of chromed faces and ornate designs must have told the Rattler to come no closer.
Mostly Bishops and Rooks, they had been frightened by the Duster that had flown them and the commandeered Rattler that had brought them here from the landing field.
Mr Rattler had gone back to his old office at the Treasury and Mr Roby had been forced to content himself with the Secretaryship at the Admiralty.