Rattles
[rætlz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Croup, hives.
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Examples
- He looks at them with an eager eye and rattles something in his pocket--halfpence perhaps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He might add, And rattles like it, but he only mutters, I'm a-moving on, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There were the conch shell trumpet, the stone, bone, wood and metal dance rattles, the beaks of birds, and the horns and teeth of beasts, for the same rattling purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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