Definition of "rattly" []

• Rattling or likely to rattle; clattering. (adjective)

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• "Yes, the outside of her figurehead was mighty hard to beat, everybody said so; but the inside was kind of -- well, kind of rattly, as you might say."
• "As for us kanakas, our heads were hot and light and rattly as dry gourds with the whisky and the rum."
• "It's a rattly festival of lifesaving compounds that — once the dreaded expiry date has arrived — no longer serve any legal function past perhaps so many makeshift maracas."