The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rattle \Rat"tle\ (r[a^]t"t'l), v. t.
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
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To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear.
--Shak. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. [Colloq.]
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To scold; to rail at. --L'Estrange. To rattle off.
To tell glibly or noisily; as, to rattle off a story.
To rail at; to scold. ``She would sometimes rattle off her servants sharply.''
--Arbuthnot.
Usage examples of "to rattle off".
There were two boy-soldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you'd already agreed to this by coming this far, and please produce your passport.
He puffed once more and then began to rattle off the material recorded in his notes.
There were two boy-soldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you’.
The Scoreboard thus allowed the colonel to keep track of the battalions and companies under his command and, quickly and crisply, to rattle off impressive figures to visiting dignitaries.
There were two boy-soldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you’d already agreed to this by coming this far, and please produce your passport.
There were two boysoldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you?
It continued to rattle off technical information until I told it to shut up.
Reluctantly Sandy accepted Bert's reasoning, and began again to rattle off the facts and deductions which had brought him to his conclusion: that the mysterious envelope was at that moment on Joe's workbench or on the desk in the garage owner's little office.
She saw herself able in a very short time to rattle off the words she held in her mind's eye.
Now he began to rattle off his report and Tetempra listened, twice condescending to tap out a note on her own recorder.
Outside, rain continued to rattle off the sides of the Sunlight Home.
Then before Hydona could say or do anything, the woman closed her eyes in concentration and began to rattle off a long series of personal messages, messages that were, unmistakably, from Hydona's kin and friends still in the Kaled'a'in Vale.