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Rattler

One who, or that which, rattles.

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Diamondback 76% connected

large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings

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Massasauga 76% connected

The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, / Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.

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Sidewinder 76% connected

See Horned rattler, under Horned.

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Train 76% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Caboose 70% connected

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

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Rattle 70% connected

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

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Rattlesnake 92% connected

Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny inte…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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