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Noisy disturbance
Answer for the clue "Noisy disturbance ", 7 letters:
clatter
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement); "the shutters clattered against the house"; "the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones" v. make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clack , brattle ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clattered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clattering .] [AS. cla?rung a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack .] To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English clatrung "clattering, noise," verbal noun implying an Old English *clatrian , of imitative origin. Compare Middle Dutch klateren , East Frisian klatern , dialectal German klattern . The noun is attested from mid-14c.\n
Usage examples of clatter.
Gears -engaged with a clatter, bearings began grinding just audibly beneath the music, and the canvas began moving slowly across the stage, feeding from the full spool toward the empty.
All the while that Weston brooded in the grill room, he could hear the annoying clatter of the billiard balls from the next room.
Hearing the clatter of billiard balls, Weston hurried into the adjoining room to interrupt those experts Cranston and Kelford, in the middle of a match.
A bird the size of a light aircraft takes off, its massive wings clattering, a shredded biotechnical garment dangling from its beak.
Members of the Bofors crew, each holding a glass of wine, came clattering up the steps and collided with them.
He pretended to be busy talking to Cind, but his ears were full of the low rumble of voices, and then the clatter of bootheels on the decking.
As Langstrat hung up the phone, she could hear Alf Brummel clattering about in the kitchen.
Fitz turned to enter the lift, but the doors clattered shut and the Doctor, Trix and Charlton dropped away.
The three unclear figures stood before the five quietly clattering constructs, and moved across the deserted street towards the house.
I came the acknowledgement and almost immediately the puffing of the loco quickened and the clatter of the crossties changed its rhythm.
And up I rose, and all our convent eke, With many a teare trilling on my cheek, Withoute noise or clattering of bells, Te Deum was our song, and nothing else, Save that to Christ I bade an orison, Thanking him of my revelation.
Voices and the clatter of dishware disturbed her some, but it was the events of the day that jostled around in her mind and kept her awake.
As he clattered into the yard, the cowbells strung in the dogtrot outside jangled out an alarm.
The car bumped down the slope, driverless and blind, clattered off the road, hit a deep hole, and threw us together with a punishing jolt.
A slotted hatchway popped open in the wall, and a tumble of belt buckles, boot latches, a stormtrooper helmet, and some half-dissolved bones clattered into the catchbin under the hatch, everything dripping brownish enzymatic acid.