From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clatter \Clat"ter\, verb (used with an object) To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. 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.
2. Commotion; disturbance. ''Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story.'' --Barrow.
3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. ''Hold still thy clatter.'' --Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ).
Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. --B. Jonson
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clatter \Clat"ter\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Clattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clattering}.] [AS. cla?rung a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. {Clack}.]
1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
Clattering loud with iron clank. --Longfellow.
2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
I see thou dost but clatter. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement); "the shutters clattered against the house"; "the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones"
verb
1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: {clack}, {brattle}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "clatter": Bedlam let loose, babble, babblement, bavardage, bedlam, bibble-babble, bicker, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blast, blather, blether, blethers, bobbery, brattle, brawl, brouhaha, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, charivari, chat, chatter, chirm, chitter-chatter, clack, clacket, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter about, clitter, clitterclatter, clunter, commotion, din, discord, dither, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, flap, fracas, free-for-all, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, hassle, haver, hell broke loose, hot air, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, idle talk, jabber, jangle, jaw, loud noise, mere talk, natter, noise, noise and shouting, nonsense talk, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, patter, pother, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, racket, ramble on, rattle, rattle around, rattle on, rattletybang, rattling, reel off, retail gossip, rhubarb, roar, row, ruckle, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, run on, shatter, shindy, shivaree, spout, spout off, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tattle, tell idle tales, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tittle-tattle, to-do, tumult, turmoil, twaddle, twattle, uproar, waffle, yak, yakkety-yak
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