clappering

Then a clappering of wings as they came in sight, and the birds flew up, mostly crows, but here and there a huge black raven.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Brittany use to do with their clappering clickets, yet better resounding and far more harmonious, and with his tongue contracted in his mouth did very merrily warble it, always looking fixedly upon the Englishman.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Brittany use to do with their clappering clickets, yet better resounding and far more harmonious, and with his tongue contracted in his mouth did very merrily warble it, always looking fixedly upon the Englishman.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

“Oh, clappering mill-wheel of words! what’s thy adventure to me?

VI. The Pass-Word. Book X 1917

It struck the tier of rock below with clattering echo, displaced another stone twice its size, then bounced -- bounced -- and a slither of slaty rock the size of a house wrenched out -- shot into mid-air with crash and sharp clappering echoes -- Then the Pass was filled with the thundering roll.

The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

He had even locked the front door and was sunk down on a chair, his teeth clappering with vigour and regularity.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

The dream which he dreamed that night was the answer of the skull, which spoke with a clappering noise like that of teeth chattering together.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897