Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rattling or clattering sound.
- n. A movement that produces such a sound.
- v. To make a rattling or clattering sound, especially by rushing or scampering.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make a loud rumbling or rattling noise; thunder.
- To move rapidly with a clattering noise.
- n. A clattering noise like that made by the feet of horses moving rapidly.
- n. Rapid motion; a short rapid race.
- n. A violent attack.
Wiktionary
- v. To rattle; to make a scampering noise
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a rattling sound
Etymologies
- Apparently imitative, probably under influence of break + rattle. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“One by one the others perform the same feat, and continue the sport for hours, striving which can produce the loudest brattle while turning.”
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“Such was Whittier on one side, a militant poet of reform, sending forth verses that had the brattle of trumpets and the waving of banners in them:”
“Just in the heart of the brattle the grating of the yett turning on its rusty hinges was but too plainly heard.”
“Might aiblins waur'd thee for a brattle; [perhaps have beat, spurt]”
“Stuyvesant with a silver bullet; a black-looking scoundrel with a split lip, who used to brattle about the tavern at Corlaer's Hook, and who tumbled into East River while trying to lug an iron chest aboard of a suspicious craft that had stolen in to shore in a fog.”
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