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n.
a small waterfall in the course of a mountain stream, so called because of the rattling roar such tumbling water makes.
Quotations
1770
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.