rattle-traps

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• Traps

  ·noun ·pl Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. ...

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• traps

  Constables and thief-takers. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• traps

  Goods; household stuff, baggage. English and American. Well, when we alighted, and got the baggage ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Rattle

  ·noun Noisy, rapid talk. II. Rattle ·noun A scolding; a sharp rebuke. III. Rattle ·noun A noisy, s...

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• rattle

  A dice-box. To rattle; to talk without consideration, also to move off or go away. To rattle one off...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mess-traps

  The kids, crockery, bowls, spoons, and other articles of mess service. ...

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• Rattle-brained

  ·adj Giddy; rattle-headed. ...

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• Rattle-headed

  ·adj Noisy; giddy; unsteady. ...

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• Rattle-pated

  ·adj Rattle-headed. ...

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• Water rattle

  ·- ·Alt. of Water rattler. ...

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• rattle-pate

  A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rattle down rigging, to

  or, to rattle the shrouds. To fix the ratlines in a line parallel to the vessel's set on the water...

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