Meaning of rattlebones | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tottering person or thing.
   informal
2. A rickety or ramshackle vehicle.
   informal

Examples

“[…] a rattlebones of a horse!”

“A rattlebones of a woman in a little-girl dress came toward him […]”

“Why, did you expect […] that I should return in the old rattlebones of a britschka which my father bestowed on me at parting? I made a bonfire of it at Milan.”

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