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Rattlebones

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tottering person or thing. informal

    "[…] a rattlebones of a horse!"

  2. 2
    A rickety or ramshackle vehicle. informal

    "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."

Etymology

From rattle + bones.

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