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1. That clatters or rattles rapidly.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 12501. Thurgh the claterand clowdes.
1799. T. M[oufet], Silkwormes, 73. On clattring treddles while they roughly play.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., II. 560. The clattering pumps with clanking strokes resound.
1869. J. Raven, Ch. Bells Cambr. (1881), 104. Two of the most clattering pans that were ever dignified with the name of bells.
1890. Punch, XCIX. 4 Oct., 162/3.
| For the pace is hot, and the points are near, | |
| And Sleep hath deadened the driver’s ear; | |
| And signals flash through the night in vain. | |
| Death is in charge of the clattering train! |
2. Chattering, babbling. In mod. Sc., tattling.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 37 b. Thy clatteryng tounge shalbe still.
1597. Jas. I., Dæmonol. (1603), 77 (Jam.). The clattering report of a carling.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Metr. Leg., Ghost Fadon, ii. 4. Dull owl, or clatt’ring jay.
