2. To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle

the welkin's ear.

Shak.

3. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to

rattle a player in a game. [Colloq.]

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