clatter

To make a rattling sound.

When all the bees are gone to settle, / You clatter still your brazen kettle.

When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones: […]

To chatter noisily or rapidly.

But if that I knewe what his name hight, / For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; / For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, / I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]

Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.

To hit; to smack.

"I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”

“An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.

The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.

There was something distinctly low-key, even wilfully alienating about the band’s performance. A scattering of OK Computer tracks were interspersed with more abstract latterday material – the clatter of 15 Step and Myxamatosis.

A loud disturbance.

Noisy talk or chatter.

A large group, especially of sibling children; a lot

a young mother with a clatter of kids told me ... her Catholic doctor refused point-blank to advise other than the rhythm method.

There haven't been any men for years. The last one I can remember was a hairy old ballad singer who, it turned out, had a wife and a clatter of kids.

Alternative form of clitter; scree.

Clatter, or, as it is sometimes called, Clitter, is the name given to the confused masses of granite rocks that are so frequently seen covering large areas of ground on the hill sides of the moor, or clustering around the bases of many of the tors.