Chiefly Sc. [See prec.]
1. intr. To produce a forcible rattling noise.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. Prol. 133. Branchis brattlyng, and blayknit schew the brays.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 51. Harsh engines brattled night and day.
b. with cognate object.
1852. D. Moir, Winter Wild, vii. His iron heels … Brattling afar their under-song.
2. To rush with rattling noise, as a mountain brook over a stony bed; to bicker. Orig. Sc.
1834. H. Miller, Scenes & Leg., xxxi. (1857), 457. A mossy streamlet comes brattling from the hill.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 18. Many little livelier runlets that brattle down the green hills on each side.
1882. Macm. Mag., Oct., 472. The becks that brattle through the brake.
3. To run with brattling feet; to scamper. Sc.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., I. ii. Our twa herds come brattling down the brae.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XIX. 382. Brattle not away so, ye foolish lambs.
