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Definition of Clattering
1. clatter [v] - See also: clatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clattering
Literary usage of Clattering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and by Georg Hartwig (1869)
"Clattering Noise when walking.—Antlers.—Extraordinary olfactory Powers. ...
When the reindeer walks or merely moves, a remarkable .clattering sound is heard ..."
2. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Clattering Noise when walking.—Antlers.—Extraordinary olfactory Powers. ...
When the reindeer walks or merely moves, a remarkable clattering sound is heard ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"The sounds were those of a crowd of armed men pressing hurriedly forward.
There was a loud clattering and jingling of arms and armour, ..."
4. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... to comfort ourselves beside the blazing fagots with hot soup and mezzo caldo,
and laugh at the eating and clattering parties —English, German, ..."
5. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"The hackmen did not know what the was to pay, and, afraid of not being in at the
death, they pot the string onto their teams, and came clattering оя behind ..."
6. The Bride of Lammermoor: And, A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott (1878)
"... stood simpering at the door of their house, as the coach-and-six, followed by
its train of clattering horsemen, thundered out of the village. ..."
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