berattle
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berattle (third-person singular simple present berattles, present participle berattling, simple past and past participle berattled)
- (transitive) To rattle; rattle vigorously.
- 2006, William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor, Hamlet - Page 468:
- These are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages (so they call them) that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
- (transitive, rare) To cry down; abuse; run down.