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Clattering loud with iron clank.

Longfellow.

2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle
with the tongue.

I see thou dost but clatter.

Spenser.

Clat"ter, v. t. To make a
rattling noise with.

You clatter still your brazen kettle.

Swift.

Clat"ter, n. 1.
A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard
bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt
sounds.

The goose let fall a golden egg

With cackle and with clatter.

Tennyson.

2. Commotion; disturbance. "Those
mighty feats which made such a clatter in story."
Barrow.

3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble;
chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley
Myst. (15 th Cent. ).

Throw by your clatter

And handle the matter.


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