Definition of "rattlebones" in Englisch

noun

1. A tottering person or thing.

   • […] a rattlebones of a horse!
   • A rattlebones of a woman in a little-girl dress came toward him […]

2. A rickety or ramshackle vehicle.

   • 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.