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chutter

n. An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake. vb. To make an alarm call of this kind.

Usage examples of "chutter".

There is no city - except Bombay, the queen of all - more beautiful in her garish style than Lucknow, whether you see her from the bridge over the river, or from the top of the Imambara looking down on the gilt umbrellas of the Chutter Munzil, and the trees in which the town is bedded.

Ice cracked and chuttered in the silence, filling hearts with sudden moments of apprehension and eyes with bright looks of concern.

The bio-comp hummed and chuttered over the twenty-two cards Spock had fed it.

With a sigh of affectionate scorn, it started chuttering, less to comfort Dwer than for its own simple pleasure, making a sound somewhat like that of a hoon sailor, umbling a song about the joys of travel.

They danced ‘round and ‘round, making the dry chuttering sounds that gave them their name.

Aster was in her element, now, and she led us on tirelessly, down one avenue of the long, brightly lit room and up the next, past giant frosted flasks and looming, sinister centrifuges, along alcoves occupied by fractionating columns, into annexes where mechanical agitators chuttered busily in reaction vats containing somber iridescent amber fluids.