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Definition of Rattleboxes
1. rattlebox [n] - See also: rattlebox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattleboxes
Literary usage of Rattleboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"They may prove extremely valuable species for fallow crops or alley crops.
Crotolaria species (rattleboxes) are le- ..."
2. The University of Hard Knocks: The School that Completes Our Education by Ralph Albert Parlette (1917)
"We have to have amusement, but if we fill our lives with nothing but amusement,
we never grow. We go thru our lives babies with new rattleboxes and ..."
3. Attractions of Language, Or A Popular View of Natural Language: In All Its by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1842)
"... the whites were frequently obliged to send Indian-messengers to the settlements,
for beads and blankets, rum and rattleboxes, looking-glasses, lead, ..."
4. Attractions of Language: Or, a Popular View of Natural Language, in All Its by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1843)
"... for beads and blankets, rum and rattleboxes, looking-glasses, lead, bits of
iron, and all that odd assemblage of the useful, worthless and ridiculous, ..."
5. From Incarnation to Re-incarnation by Richard Ingalese, Isabella Ingalese (1908)
"But when its physical body and brain have matured it should evolve beyond the
necessity for rattleboxes and bells, and should be amused and entertained by ..."
6. The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border: Or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni by Frank Fowler (1914)
"It's just awful hanging here, and listening to them use their old rattleboxes
that way." " How long can you hold out? " demanded Donald, " for if I could ..."
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