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—rattlepated, adj./rat"l payt'/, n.a rattlebrain.[1635-45; RATTLE1 + PATE]
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Rattlepate — Rat tle*pate (r[a^]t t l*p[=a]t ), n. A rattlehead. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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