Noun
The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying.
(cricket, by extension) The sound of a batsman’s stumps being broken, so called because this leads to the batsman’s dismissal.
death-rattle (plural death-rattles)
Alternative spelling of death rattle
death-rattle
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. Georg Büchner