rattler
Example Sentences
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He could scent a diamond-back rattler or a copperhead long before I saw it, and he’d let me know that it was there.
From Literature
Some controllers call this shift schedule the “rattler,” because of the way it can disrupt their sleep rhythms and negatively affect their mental health.
There actually were 20 snakes — five adult western diamondback rattlers and 15 babies.
From Seattle Times
Many controllers call the schedule “the rattler” because like the snake, it has a nasty bite.
From Seattle Times
I do not have an inordinate fear of snakes, not even rattlers.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
