• RATTLE

1.

• s. crepitus (rattle of a single sound repeated; tapping, stamping, etc.): strepitus (loud, noisy sound; of bawling, shrieking, etc.; but also of chains, vinculorum): sonitus (ringing, clinking sound; catenarum: also of wheels, rotarum): fragor (crash; e.g., of thunder).
• An instrument to make a rattling noise, crepitaculum (general term; hence, also, of watchmen’s rattles). A child’s rattle, crepundia, -orum, plur., (Cic.); puerile crepitaculum (Quint., 9, 4, 64); or, from context, crepitaculum only.

2. v. crepare: crepitum dare (to make a clattering noise): strepere; strepitum dare (to make a loud, sharp rattling noise): sonare (to resound, general term). To rattle with their arms, armis concrepare: his throat rattles, faucibus ejus illiditur spiritus (e.g., in febre): interclusus spiritus arte meat (he breathes hard).