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Definition of Clattery
1. Adjective. A rattling sound as of hard things striking together. "The clattery sound of dishes"
Definition of Clattery
1. Adjective. (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clattery
1. having a rattling noise [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clattery
Literary usage of Clattery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Joseph Warren Chapman, Marblehead (Mass.) (1903)
"clattery, d. Peter and Hannah, bp. Feb. 9, 1717-18. c. R. 1. clattery, s. twin,
clattery ... July 29,1739. c. R. 1. clattery, s. clattery and Hannah, bp. ..."
2. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1906)
"There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing,
certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"589; clattery v. Jones, 96 Mo. 216, 8 SW 554; Mulford v. Peterson, 35 NJL 127;
Jacoby's Appeal, 67 Pa. 435; Henderson v. Henderson, 133 Pa. ..."
4. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"Old Crabbe Robinson, visible in the reading room, inquired after you that night:
very old, and clattery. Darwin, Owen, etc., were also visible: plenty of ..."
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