clatter

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make a rattling sound.
2. v. To move with a rattling sound: clattering along on roller skates.
3. v. To talk rapidly and noisily; chatter.
4. v. To cause to make a rattling sound.
5. n. A rattling sound: the clatter of dishes in the kitchen.
6. n. A loud disturbance; a racket: the clatter of the subway train.
7. n. Noisy talk; chatter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make a rattling sound; make repeated sharp, confused sounds, as when sonorous bodies strike or are struck rapidly together; rattle.
2. To talk fast and idly; chatter; rattle with the tongue.
3. To make a rattling noise with; cause to sound interruptedly by striking together, or with or against something: as, to clatter dishes or the tongs.
4. To utter glibly and in a rattling manner; tattle; chatter.
5. n. A rapid succession of sharp sounds; rattling, rapidly repeated, and confused noises.
6. n. Idle gossip; tattle.
7. n. A heap of loose boulders or broken rocks. Compare clutter.
8. n. Noisy gabble or talk; confused din of many jabbering tongues.

Wiktionary

1. n. A rattling noise.
2. n. A loud disturbance.
3. n. Noisy talk or chatter.
4. v. transitive To cause to make a rattling sound.
5. v. intransitive To make a rattling noise
6. v. intransitive To chatter noisily or rapidly.
7. v. Northern England To hit; to smack

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
2. v. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
3. v. To make a rattling noise with.
4. n. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
5. n. Commotion; disturbance.
6. n. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement)
2. v. make a rattling sound