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rattle Nfld 
n. a small waterfall in the course of a mountain stream, so called because of the rattling roar such tumbling water makes.
- 1770 (1792) The rattles and rapids in the river are now broken up.
- 1861 In the different bays are brooks, and in these brooks are "rattles," as they are termed, or, more properly speaking, "falls," though none are of any great magnitude.
- 1770 (1792) The rattles and rapids in the river are now broken up.