Crossword clues for clattering
clattering
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.]
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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.
Wiktionary
n. A noise that clatters. vb. (present participle of clatter English)
WordNet
adj. a rattling sound as of hard things striking together; "a clattering typewriter"; "the clattering sound of dishes" [syn: clattery]
Usage examples of "clattering".
Bill reared back and booted a skull hard, ricocheting it off the wall and sending it clattering down the steps into the dark.
Pursuing his researches further, out of the region of reputation or fame proper into that of tidings or rumours, the poet is led, by a man who has entered into conversation with him, to a vast whirling house of twigs, ever open to the arrival of tidings, ever full of murmurings, whisperings, and clatterings, coming from the vast crowds that fill it -- for every rumour, every piece of news, every false report, appears there in the shape of the person who utters it, or passes it on, down in earth.
Screams of women and the clattering of clogs rang out hi the courtyards.
He left, and soon the clattering sound of the nails of his boots died away.
It struck him on the chest, cards clattering on the tabletop in a wild scatterwhich settled into a pattern.
He caught one of the crossbows before it struck the cobbles, but the other eluded him, clattering and skittering on the street.
Mappo straightened at the sound of wagon wheels clattering on the road.
Just then there was the roaring, clattering sound of two military helicopters battering the morning air overhead.
The seam of the box gave way suddenly and a dozen role-playing figurines spilled out, wizards and sorcerers clattering across the cobbles at his feet.
Then there was the sound of footsteps clattering over a metal walkway.
He fanned the front-runners with hot lead, sending an unbroken string of brass hulls clattering against the wall to his right.
Sir Nigel sat silent and distrait at his meal, while Alleyne hearkened to the clattering tongue of the Gascon, and to his talk of the glories of his own estate, his successes in love, and his triumphs in war.
Dim memories he had of beetling cliffs, of a group of huts with wondering faces at the doors, of foaming, clattering water, and of a bristle of mountain beeches.
Ahead of them they heard a sudden cry and then more and clattering feet and curses in the dark.
He was dimly aware that his magtyper was clattering out something, but be flipped the silence hood over it and leaned back in his chair again.