[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

spring \spring\ spri^ng, v. t.
   1. to cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to
      cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to
      spring a pheasant.
      1913 webster

   2. to produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to
      spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.
      1913 webster

            she starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            the friends to the cause sprang a new project.
                                                  --swift.
      1913 webster

   3. to cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
      1913 webster

   4. to crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as,
      to spring a mast or a yard.
      1913 webster

   5. to cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap
      operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
      1913 webster

   6. to bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force
      or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and
      allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in,
      out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
      1913 webster

   7. to pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
      1913 webster

   8. to release a person from confinement, especially from a
      prison. colloquial
      pjc

   to spring a butt naut., to loosen the end of a plank in a
      ship's bottom.

   to spring a leak naut., to begin to leak.

   to spring an arch arch., to build an arch; -- a common
      term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.

   to spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. see
      watchman's rattle, under watchman.

   to spring the luff naut., to ease the helm, and sail
      nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel.
      --mar. dict.

   to spring a mast or to spring a spar naut., to strain
      it so that it is unserviceable.
      1913 webster
see also:
to spring a butt to spring a leak to spring an arch to spring a rattle watchman's rattle watchman 
to spring the luff to spring a mast to spring a spar 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rattle \rat"tle\, n.
   1. a rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the
      rattle of a drum. --prior.
      1913 webster

   2. noisy, rapid talk.
      1913 webster

            all this ado about the golden age is but an empty
            rattle and frivolous conceit.         --hakewill.
      1913 webster

   3. an instrument with which a rattling sound is made;
      especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
      1913 webster

            the rattles of isis and the cymbals of brasilea
            nearly enough resemble each other.    --sir w.
                                                  raleigh.
      1913 webster

            pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. a noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
      1913 webster

            it may seem strange that a man who wrote with so
            much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have
            been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an
            empty, noisy, blundering rattle.      --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   5. a scolding; a sharp rebuke. obs. --heylin.
      1913 webster

   6. zool. any organ of an animal having a structure adapted
      to produce a rattling sound.
      1913 webster

   note: the rattle of a rattlesnake is composed of the hardened
         terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast
         off, and so modified in form as to make a series of
         loose, hollow joints.
         1913 webster

   7. the noise in the throat produced by the air in passing
      through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; --
      chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is
      called the death rattle. see r^ale.
      1913 webster

   to spring a rattle, to cause it to sound.

   yellow rattle bot., a yellow-flowered herb rhinanthus
      crista-galli, the ripe seeds of which rattle in the
      inflated calyx.
      1913 webster
see also:
r^ale to spring a rattle yellow rattle rhinanthus crista-galli 

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