[f. BRATTLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb to BRATTLE; the production of harsh rattling sounds.
a. 1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1793), I. 34. The bursting, belching, and brattling of the French horns.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 35. His voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpet.
1821. Byron, Sardan., III. i. 394. As a lute’s [voice] pierceth through the cymbal’s clash, Jarr’d but not drown’d by the loud brattling.
