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▪ I. ˈclitter, n. dial.|ˈklɪtə(r)|
[cf. next word, and clatter n.2]
= clatter n.2
1884Illust. Lond. News, Christm. No. 23/2 They might have taken shelter among a ‘clitter’ of rocks somewhere.
2. dial. A flutter.
1880W. Cornwall Gloss., I was all of a clitter.
▪ II. clitter, v.|ˈklɪtə(r)|
[A parallel form to clatter expressing a more attenuated action of the same kind; cf. chitter, chatter, jibber, jabber, etc. Cf. also Ger. klittern, and its relations to klattern.]
†1. To chatter. Obs.
a1528Skelton Col. Cloute, He prates and he patters He clytters and he clatters.
b. Said of a grasshopper or cicada: cf. chitter.
1844Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes, To Eng. Lady 177, I lay aloof, With the cicala faintly clittering near.
2. To make a thin vibratory rattle; to cause to vibrate and rattle lightly. trans. and intr.
1530Palsgr. 487/1, I clytter, I make noyse, as harnesse or peuter dysshes..These peuter pottes clytter as moche as if they were of sylver. 1537Thersytes in Four O. Pl. (1848) 82 Clytteringe and clatteringe there youre pottes with ale.
3. dial. To flutter.
1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Clittering its wings. |