These are the meanings of the letters WARTLET when you unscramble them.
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Latter (a.)
Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
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Latter (a.)
Of two things, the one mentioned second.
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Latter (a.)
Recent; modern.
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Latter (a.)
Last; latest; final.
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Rattle (v. i.)
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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Rattle (v. i.)
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
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Rattle (v. i.)
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
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Rattle (v. t.)
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
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Rattle (v. t.)
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
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Rattle (v. t.)
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
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Rattle (v. t.)
To scold; to rail at.
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Rattle (n.)
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
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Rattle (n.)
Noisy, rapid talk.
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Rattle (n.)
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
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Rattle (n.)
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
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Rattle (n.)
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
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Rattle (n.)
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
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Rattle (n.)
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
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Wattle (n.)
A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
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Wattle (n.)
A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
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Wattle (n.)
A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
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Wattle (n.)
Barbel of a fish.
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Wattle (n.)
The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
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Wattle (n.)
The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
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Wattle (v. t.)
To bind with twigs.
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Wattle (v. t.)
To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
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Wattle (v. t.)
To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.