Crossword clues for pattered
pattered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patter \Pat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pattering.] [Freq. of pat to strike gently.]
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To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
--Thomson. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
--Tyndale. [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]-
To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.]
I've gone out and pattered to get money.
--Mayhew.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: patter)
Usage examples of "pattered".
The other whined and pattered a few yards to the rise of ground and there crouched on guard.
But his action prevented Whitie from further misdoing, and then the two dogs pattered down, carrying the rabbit between them.
In the shady court, where Jane spent many of the hot July days, Fay’s tiny feet pattered over the stone flags and splashed in the amber stream.
Light, sure-footed as a mountain goat, Bess pattered down at Venters’s heels.
The position of Assessor of Ch'in had to rank very high among the most miserable occupations on earth, and the fellow who was stuck with it was universally known as the Key Rabbit -- inescapably so, because he was a cringing little man with pink-rimmed eyes and a long pink nose that twitched in permanent terror, and as he pattered through the streets he was festooned with jangling chains of keys.
He searched through his thousands of keys for the right one, unlocked the chest, counted the coins, checked the records to see if the amount was suspiciously low, conferred with spies to confirm that no cheating had taken place, relocked the chest, and pattered down the street to the next place of business.
He decided that the fastest way to get to the Key Rabbit would be to burn our palace to the ground, since it was rented from the Duke of Ch'in at a ruinous rate, and I was roasting a goose over the embers when the little fellow pattered up.
It was cold and overcast, and a tiny silver rain pattered down as I dug the grave.
The position of Assessor of Ch'in had to rank very high among the most miserable occupations on earth, and the fellow who was stuck with it was universally known as the Key Rabbit — inescapably so, because he was a cringing little man with pink-rimmed eyes and a long pink nose that twitched in permanent terror, and as he pattered through the streets he was festooned with jangling chains of keys.
But then more bullets pattered off the landcruisers like pebbles thrown at a metal roof.
No sooner had the landcruiser begun to roll, though, than more bullets pattered off its side and rear deck.