rattler

noun

1. Anything that rattles.
2. (US, informal)A rattlesnake.

   “You watch your step walking out there on the mesa, because in warmer season, the rattlers are up and about, and it's their turf.”

3. A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
4. (colloquial)Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
5. (colloquial, dated)A loud, inconsiderate talker.
6. (colloquial, dated)A stunning blow.

   “[…] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.”

7. (colloquial, dated)An impudent lie; a whopper.

name

1. A surname.