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Definition of Brattling
1. brattle [v] - See also: brattle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brattling
Literary usage of Brattling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... Giff our twa herds come brattling down the brae, And see us еле I— ... a' this
while, wi' mony a donner, Auld guns were brattling aft" like ..."
2. Ballads and Songs of Brittany by Théodore Hersart La Villemarqué, Mrs Laura Wilson (Barker) Taylor, TOM. TAYLOR (1865)
"... A - zeu da skei war hon-no - door; Forests are brattling, earthwards b lo
wn,Hailstorms are rattling the roofs up- - riou ..."
3. Whistle-binkie: A Collection of Songs for the Social Circle by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson (1890)
"SAW ye Johnny on his shelly, Riding, brattling, ... If he's spared he winna shame
us, Else I'm unco sair mista'en. Brattling thro' the blooming heat ..."
4. Englisch-deutsches Supplement-lexikon: Als Ergänzung zu allen bis jetzt by A. Hoppe (1871)
"... bca Cornea: the bursting, belching, and brattling of the French horns in the
passage. ... Jarr'd but not drown'd by the loud brattling. (Str.) Brawl, a. ..."
5. The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving (1906)
"... 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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