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
Thou needna start awa sae hasty Wi' bickering brattle!
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
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
Farewell, volcanic din, Olympian brattle, The bursting bomb, the thousand-throated cheer Tartarean roar, the volleyed rifle rattle, The rocket's lightning line of fire and fear.
From Soldier Songs and Love Songs by A. H. (Alexander Hamilton) Laidlaw
Listening, the doors an’ winnocks rattle, I thought me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O’ winter war, And through the drift, deep-lairing sprattle Beneath a scar.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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
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
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
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
These words were followed by another clang, louder and more brattling than the first.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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