These are the meanings of the letters TARTLE when you unscramble them.
- Latter (a.)
Last; latest; final.
- Latter (a.)
Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
- Latter (a.)
Of two things, the one mentioned second.
- Latter (a.)
Recent; modern.
- Rattle (n.)
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- Rattle (n.)
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
- Rattle (n.)
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- Rattle (n.)
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- Rattle (n.)
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- Rattle (n.)
Noisy, rapid talk.
- Rattle (n.)
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
- Rattle (v. i.)
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
- Rattle (v. i.)
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
- Rattle (v. i.)
To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
- Rattle (v. t.)
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
- Rattle (v. t.)
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- Rattle (v. t.)
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
- Rattle (v. t.)
To scold; to rail at.