rattle

kalistin

kolistella

ravistella, kalistaa, helisyttää puhekieltä a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.

I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.

The rattle of a drum.

Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.

All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit.

It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle.

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The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.

to rattle a chain

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

“Tut!” said old Bittlesham. “Tut is right”, I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. “But if you haven’t dropped a parcel over the race,” I said, “why are you looking so rattled?”

That United were rattled, mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.

I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.

Sound but another drum, and another shall / As loud as thine rattle the welkin’s ear.

We rattled along for a couple of miles.

She rattled on for an hour.