1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 191 And till the toun soyn cumin ar thei Sa preuely, bot noyss making, That nane persauit thair cummyng.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 187 (MED) Thou Shalte lagh wythout grynnynge, Speke wyth-out cry or noyse-makynge.

1598 H. Roberts Honours Conquest sig. S3 As quietly without any noise making as he could, hee left her to her rest.

1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes iii. sig. D2 The poor Haberdasher, that so bolstered the head of his hammer, that it forced in the naile, without any noyse making.

1631 T. Dekker Penny-wise, Povnd Foolish sig. F2 Hee that was wont to make Tauernes roare with the noise of gallon pots, and drawers to run vp stayres, and downe stayres,..is now glad without any roaring or noyse-making.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 41 The kind hostess, whose assiduities in noise-making had attracted his attention.

1929 F. D. Lewis in H. S. Rhees Laurenus Clark Seelye vii. 97 He had a lot of fun and youthful vim in him, and let it go for the mere joy of noise-making.

1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) iii. 70 The..fans were again conducted in their noise-making by their self-appointed leader.

2002 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 18 Jan. 49 Scare guns and other noise-making methods [of deterring birds].

1678 J. Phillips Maronides vi. 52 Were all that damn'd noise-making croud But there, they need not bawl so loud.

1773 H. Mackenzie Man of World I. xxii. 237 In a merrier, or as that word may generally be translated, a more noise-making mood than usual.

1788 G. A. Stevens Songs, Comic & Satyrical 123 Ye noise-making, sash-breaking, lacqueys of factions.

1863 Q. Rev. July 193 It seems a suspicious circumstance that the old-fashioned visible ghost has in these modern séances been almost entirely superseded by the Poltergeist or noise-making spirit.

1890 O. W. Holmes Over Teacups v. 94 I enjoy the brouhaha..of all this quarrelsome menagerie of noise-making machines.

1905 Proc. Brit. Assoc. 5 191 The noise-instrument known to the Germans as reib-trommel (‘rubbing-drum’)..is a popular noise-making instrument in Western Europe, where it was known as far back as early in the seventeenth century, and probably earlier.

1935 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 65 317 On their arrival at his settlement he conducts them in silence to the nearby Kumara and here certain noise-making instruments are constructed.

1992 M. L. West Anc. Greek Mus. iv. 126 Our concern being with music, it is not necessary to discuss every kind of noise-making device.