brattle
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of brattle
1495–1505; imit; see rattle 1
Example Sentences
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Crickets and night toads, the brattle of a dog, laundry billowing on a line against the night breeze.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
A correspondent from Newcastle writes advocating the recognition of the word brattle as descriptive of thunder.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by John Sargeaunt
Better the nag that ambles a' the day, than him that makes a brattle for a mile, and then's dune wi' the road.'
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' wintry war, Or thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scaur.
From A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs
Too well they shall know, when amid the wild brattle Of the waters below, they enter life's battle.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
True Thomas played upon his harp, That birled and brattled to his hand, And the next least word True Thomas made, It garred the King take horse and brand.
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
It opened upon the river just where a small brook comes brattling down the bank, along the base of a hill of some magnitude that yet retains the stately name of Mount Ararat.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
He could show the litui with their carved clarions--the twisted cornua--the tuba, a trumpet so long and taper,--the concha wound by Tritons--and eke the buccina, a short and brattling horn.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
When beasts and birds cowered with affright From brattling winds that, roving free, Moaned in the woods of Dowielee.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
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