Hypertext Webster Gateway: "clatter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clatter \Clat"ter\ (kl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Clattered} (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Clattering}.] [AS.
clatrung 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. t.
To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clatter \Clat"ter\, n.
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.''
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
clatter
n : a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement); "the
shutters clattered against the house"; "the clatter of
iron wheels on cobblestones"
v : make a rattling sound [syn: {clack}, {brattle}]
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