clatter

Speech parts

1. clatter - Noun

2. clatter - Verb

Meaning

To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.

To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.

To make a rattling noise with.

A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.

Commotion; disturbance.

Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.

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clattering dishes Source: Internet

the shutters clattered against the house Source: Internet

the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones Source: Internet

As the union march made its way through the warehouse there was an incessant clatter from the conveyor belts which snaked around the building moving thousands of boxes and bags of all shapes and sizes. Source: Internet

Dr. Lin is not interested in focusing on the song of a singular whalethe clatter of ship traffic, but rather on the habitat’s soundscape — the totality of all its sounds, human, animal and geological — to glean an area’s biodiversity. Source: Internet

Kick-off track “Yearning” charges in with a cool clatter of noise, something akin to the sound of Duke Ellington’s big band and Led Zeppelin tumbling together down a set of stairs. Source: Internet

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