▪ I. ruttle, n.1 Now dial.
(ˈrʌt(ə)l)
[f. ruttle v.]
A rattling noise in the throat.
| 1713 Burnet Serm. 175 The last Agonies, the fixed Eyes, and the dismal Ruttle,..tell all those about the Dying-Bed, that he..is now going to his Home. 1838 Holloway Prov. Dict., Ruttles, a noise, occasioned by a difficulty of breathing. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds Gloss. 396 Persons are said to have the ‘death-rattle’ or ‘ruttle’ in their dying moments. |
▪ II. ˈruttle, n.2
(See quot. 1876.)
| 1876 A. H. Green Phys. Geol. ix. 363 Cracks roughly parallel to the plane of the fault, which are sometimes called ‘Ruttles’ by quarrymen. 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 209. |
▪ III. ruttle, v. Now dial.
(ˈrʌt(ə)l)
Forms: 4 rutele, 5 ruthle, 5–6 rutill, rutle, 7, 9 ruttle.
[= MLG. rutelen, prob. of imitative origin: cf. rottle v. and rattle v.]
intr. To rattle; to make a rattling noise in the throat.
| a 1400 Pol., Rel., & L. Poems 250 Þin teth ratilet.., and þi þrote ruteletȝ. 14.. in Reliq. Antiq. I. 54 If he rutills: this er the takenynges of dethe. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 16 With wepne ryngynge, speres and sparthes ruthlynge [v.r. rutlynge] to-geddre. 1566 Drant Horace, Sat. ii. v. H v, If one of thy cooparteners gin to rutle in the throte. 1651 R. Watkins Newes fr. Dead 2 The Coffin being opened, she was observed to breath, and in breathing..obscurely to ruttle. Ibid. 3 Shee ruttled more than before, and seemed obscurely to cough. 1828– in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Linc., Craven, Leeds). |
Hence ˈruttling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| c 1400 MS. Cott. Calig. A ii. fol. 113 Then was rutlynge in Rome, and rubbynge of helmes. 1530 Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 668, I am ane blak Monk, said the rutlande [1592 rutilland] Ravin. 1857 Borrow Romany Rye xl, Little or no ruttling having been heard in the tube. 1862 ― Wales III. viii. 75 The ruttling of the smoker's pipe in the chimney-corner. |