▪ I. † ˈrottle, n. Obs.—1
[ad. OF. ratelle, dim. of rate: see rate n.4]
The spleen.
| c 1450 Burgh Secrees 1744 Ache in the Rottle And ek in the haunches. [Cf. Secreta Secret. 31 Akyng of thyn haunchis and of thi mylte.] |
▪ II. rottle, v. Now dial.
(ˈrɒt(ə)l)
Also 4–6 rotle, 4–5 rotel, 5 rottill-.
[= MDu. and MLG. rotelen, G. rosseln (also Du. reutelen, LG. röteln, G. rȯsseln), prob. of imitative origin: cf. rattle v. and ruttle v.]
intr. To rattle, in various senses.
| 13.. K. Alis. 930 Mony a baner, of gold and ynde, That day rotled with the wynde. Ibid. 1871 Mony scheld ther was y-founde, And mony baner was rotelande. 13.. Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 249 Whanne..þe þrote Roteletȝ, And þe hew Falewetȝ. a 1400 Rel. Antiq. I. 65 His teth shulle ratelen; And his throte shal rotelen. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 132 b, It..rotleth with much noise in the throte. 1608 Tourneur Reveng. Trag. iv. ii, He whurles and rotles in the throate. 1675 Cotton Burlesque upon B. Wks. (1725) 278 Hearing Blood in Throats to rottle, Like Liquor from a strait-mouth'd Bottle. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. 134/1 A Goat when he sendeth forth his Cry Rattleth or Rotteleth. 1719 Hamilton Ep. i. viii. in Ramsay Poems, Tho' I should baith reel and rottle,..At Ed'nburgh we sall ha'e a bottle. 1841 Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss. 551 Rottling in his throat. 1861 R. Young Rabin Hill's Visit Rlwy. i. xvii, Dont'e hear The snarten creter rottlen on? 1898 Raymond Men o' Mendip vi, A..note, so crisp that he'll rottle 'twixt your vinger an' thumb. |
Hence ˈrottling vbl. n.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 943 Alexander..Sees slike a rottillyng in þe rewme & ridis al þe faster. 14.. Siege Jerusalem 277 Þan was rotlyng in Rome,..Schewyng of scharpe stele and scheldes ydressed. |