Definitions
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- v. Present participle of brattle.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of making a clattering noise; tumult; uproar; quarrel.
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Examples
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I began to cry, my vehicle brattling along at seventy miles an hour, my vision hazy from mascara and tears.
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The different bands tuned their instruments—peeping, brattling, droning, thudding—all flat in the sodden air.
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He was remarkable for always jerking up his breeches when he gave out his orders, and his voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpet -- owing to the number of hard northwesters which he had swallowed in the course of his seafaring.
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Tritons -- and eke the buccina, a short and brattling horn.
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It opened upon the river just where a small brook comes brattling down the bank, along the base of a hill of some magnitude that yet retains the stately name of Mount Ararat.
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The noise of the riven beam was like the brattling of thunder.
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Through this sequestered shade the stream crept, with a devious course, brattling, now and then, at the resistance of decayed trunks that accident had thrown across the channel, but quickly after subsiding into silence.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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He ordered every body about him, with an authoritative air; talked in a brattling voice, that sounded like the
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His family consisted of a large black cat with one eye, and a parrot which he had caught and tamed and educated himself in the course of one of his voyages, and which uttered a variety of sea-phrases with the hoarse brattling tone of a veteran boatswain.
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He was remarkable for always jerking up his breeches when he gave out his orders, and his voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpet, owing to the number of hard north-westers which he had swallowed in the course of his seafaring.
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