Clat"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clattered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clattering.] [AS. clarung 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 clamk.
Longfellow.
2.
To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
I see thou dost but clatter.
Spenser.
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Clat"ter, v. t.
To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle.
Swift.
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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."<-- sic. = history?-->
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
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