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Definition of Rattle down
1. Verb. Recite volubly or extravagantly. "He could recite the names of all the chemical elements"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattle Down
Literary usage of Rattle down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emilius by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1768)
"... rattle down through the boughs : but this kind of beauty is loft on children.
' . ... rattle down ..."
2. On Blue Water by Edmondo De Amicis, Jacob B. Brown (1897)
"But even at these times he failed not to " rattle down" the stewards in sailor
phrase, both for a salutary warning to them and by way of keeping his own ..."
3. The Twelve Months Volunteer: Or Journal of a Private, in the Tennessee by George C. Furber (1857)
"... ;—rattle—rattle—down, with a pounce, the box came again ; all were silent and
looked with interest. As it was lifted, one six was up:—" Didn'tI tell you ..."
4. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"As we approach our destination the country becomes wooded, and we rattle down a
rutty lane, over-arched with trees ; we are led to expect a fine view of ..."
5. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"To rattle down. Hook the futtock-shrouds* to the plates in the top, ... are not
in danger of being caught over them; and then proceed. to rattle down, ..."
6. Robert Merry's Museum by Samuel G Goodrich (1842)
"Then it was that I loved to visit it; to climb its limbs and give it a shake,
and hear the fruit rattle down like hail. Never, in alt my boyhood days, ..."
7. Merry's Museum (1842)
"Then it was that I loved to visit it ; to climb its limbs and give it a shake,
and hear the fruit rattle down like hail. Never, in all my boyhood days, ..."
8. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"... let the bunch of keys rattle down from his girdle, and a woman's coats fall
about his knees, and fasten the broad stones [brooches] on his breast, ..."
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