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▪ I. brattling, vbl. n.|ˈbrætlɪŋ|
[f. brattle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb to brattle; the production of harsh rattling sounds.
a1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1793) I. 34 The bursting, belching, and brattling of the French horns. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 35 His voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpet. 1821Byron 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.
▪ II. brattling, ppl. a.|ˈbrætlɪŋ|
[f. brattle v. + -ing2.]
That brattles: see the verb.
1820W. Irving Sketch-bk. (1849) 420 The hoarse brattling tone of a veteran boatswain. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 136 To gie them [dogs]..a brattlin run o thretty miles after a fox. 1860J. Kennedy Horseshoe R. i. 11 A rough and brattling mountain torrent. 1863J. Ingelow Poems 178 She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea. |