rattle down

[rat-l]

rat·tle

2[rat-l]
verb (used with object), rat·tled, rat·tling. Nautical.
to furnish with ratlines (usually followed by down).

Origin:
1720–30; back formation from ratling ratline (taken as verbal noun)
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Rattle down is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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rattle down

verb
recite volubly or extravagantly; "He could recite the names of all the chemical elements" 
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