Rattle may mean
- Rattle (percussion instrument), a type of percussion instrument
- Rattle (percussion beater), a part of some percussion instruments
- RATTLE magazine, an American poetry journal
- Bird-scaring rattle, a Slovene device used to drive birds off vineyards and a folk instrument
- Ratchet (instrument), a percussion instrument
- Death rattle
- Rhinanthus, a genus of plants
- Rattle, Derbyshire, a hamlet in England
- The Rattles, German rock band who recorded an upbeat version of "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" in the 1960s also famous for their 1970 hit "The Witch"
- RATTLE, a constraint algorithm used in molecular dynamics simulations
- Rattle GUI a gui for the statistical programming language R
- Football rattle, a ratchet used by football fans to make a supportive or celebratory noise
Famous quotes containing the word rattle:
“Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“There’s keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.”
—Simon Rattle (b. 1955)