CLATTER

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

2.
v.

To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. I see thou dost but clatter. Spenser.

3.
v.

To make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.

4.
n.

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.

5.
n.

Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.

6.
n.

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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