Usually means: Producing short, sharp, shaking sounds.
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  1. rattling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rattling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rattling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rattling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rattling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rattling, rattling: Wordnik
  7. rattling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rattling: Wiktionary
  9. rattling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rattling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rattling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rattling, rattling: Dictionary.com
  13. rattling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Rattling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rattling: Rhymezone
  16. Rattling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. rattling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. rattling: Free Dictionary
  19. rattling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rattling: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. rattling: Legal dictionary

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  1. rattling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rattling: Medical dictionary

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  1. rattling: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rattling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rattling: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. rattling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rattle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rattling)

adjective:  Lively, quick (speech, pace).
adjective:  (dated, intensifier) good, fine.
noun:  rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
noun:  (nautical) Alternative form of ratline [(nautical, uncountable) The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.]

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