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rittle-rattle rare.
[f. rattle n.1 or v.1, with usual change of vowel.]
1. A child's rattle.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. lxxxiv. 517 Who think to dally with God, and would giue him rittlerattles to play with as if hee were a babe.
2. An imitation of the sound made by dice.
1837Heath's Bk. of Beauty 246 See there, how he handles the dice! Rittle, rattle! the pigeon is plucked in a trice. |