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Meaning of rattlebones | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

rattlebox rattlebrain rattlebush rattlecap Rattled rattlehead

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