Definition of Clattering

1. Verb. (present participle of clatter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clattering

1. clatter [v] - See also: clatter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clattering

clathrate compound
clathrate crystal
clathrates
clathrin
clathrin adaptor proteins
clathrins
clathrochelate
clathrochelated
clathrochelates
clats
clatted
clatter
clattered
clatterer
clatterers
clattering (current term)
clatteringly
clatters
clattery
clattier
clattiest
clatting
clatty
clauber
claucht
clauchted
clauchts
claudetite
claudicant
claudicants

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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