The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word RATTLING
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What does RATTLING mean?
RATTLING verb- To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
- To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
- To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
- To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
- To scold; to rail at.
- To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
- To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
- Rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
- Lively, quick (speech, pace).
- (intensifier) good, fine.
- The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.
- Any of the cross ropes between the shrouds, which form a net like ropework, allowing sailors to climb up towards the top of the mast.