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rat·tler
\ˈratlə(r), -ad.əl-, -atəl-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English rateler, from ratelen to rattle + -er — more at rattle
1. : one that rattles: as
a. : rattle 2b
b. : a vehicle (as an automobile, trolley car, or railway car) that rattles; specifically : a freight train
< grab fast rattlers for the West — Thomas Wolfe >
2. : something extraordinarily good of its kind : a fine specimen (as of a horse, storm, blow, game, or book)
< a rattler of a storm >
3.
a. : rattlesnake
b. : rattle 4 — usually used in plural
< a rattlesnake rattling his rattlers — Ernest Hemingway >
4.
a. : a revolving drum in which paving bricks are rotated with a charge of cast iron to test their abrasive resistance
b. : a device for shaking out the cores from small castings : tumbling barrel
c. : a device for finishing materials (as metal, concrete blocks, or bricks) consisting of a closed receptacle in which the material to be finished is shaken up with blocks of metal or abrasive
5. : rattlebrain |