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▪ I. clattering, vbl. n.|ˈklætərɪŋ|
[f. clatter v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb clatter.
1. Noise of the rapidly repeated collision of hard bodies; rattling.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1515 Clatering of conacles þat kesten þo burdes. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1634 Of hors and herneys noyse and claterynge Ther was. 1581Savile Agric. (1622) 198 The clattering and running of charets and horsemen. 1665Manley Grotius' Low-C. Warres 249 The noise and clattering of Arms in the Castle. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 345 The clattering of his horse's hoofs.
2. Chattering, rapid noisy talk. In mod.Sc., tattling.
c1400Test. Love i. (1560) 276 b/1 After much clattering, there is mokell rowning. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 41 No man thorugh his clateringe shulde desturbe the devine seruice of God. 1583Fulke Defence vii. 302 Where then is your vain clattering of the mystery of antichrist? 1713Swift Faggot, Constable with staff of peace, Should come and make their clatt'ring cease. 1737Ramsay Scot. Prov. Ded., Few opportunities of common clattering.
†3. Applied to a company of choughs. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Hors, Shepe, & G. (1822) 30 A clatering of chowhis A murmeracion of stares.
▪ II. clattering, ppl. a.|ˈklætərɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
1. That clatters or rattles rapidly.
c1400Destr. Troy 12501 Thurgh the claterand clowdes. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 73 On clattring treddles while they roughly play. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 560 The clattering pumps with clanking strokes resound. 1869J. Raven Ch. Bells Cambr. (1881) 104 Two of the most clattering pans that were ever dignified with the name of bells.
2. Chattering, babbling. In mod.Sc., tattling.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 37 b, Thy clatteryng tounge shalbe still. 1597Jas. I Dæmonol. (1616) 134 (Jam.) The clattering report of a carling. 1821J. Baillie Met. Leg., Ghost Fadon ii. 4 Dull owl, or clatt'ring jay. |