Crossword clues for clatter
clatter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. t. To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle.
--Swift.
Clatter \Clat"ter\, n.
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A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter.
--Tennyson. Commotion; disturbance. ``Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story.''
--Barrow.-
Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. ``Hold still thy clatter.''
--Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ).Throw by your clatter And handle the matter.
--B. Jonson
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.]
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To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
Clattering loud with iron clank.
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To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
I see thou dost but clatter.
--Spenser.
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
Wiktionary
n. A rattling noise. vb. (context transitive English) To cause to make a rattling sound.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Clatter is a small village in Powys, Wales located on the main A470 road between Carno & Caersws.
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.