brattle

[brat-l]

noun

1. a clattering noise.

verb (used without object)

brattled, brattling 

1. to scamper noisily.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brattle¹

1495–1505; imit; rattle ¹

Example Sentences

Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.

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Crickets and night toads, the brattle of a dog, laundry billowing on a line against the night breeze.

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We found a remarkably nice level bit of grass, screened by a rocky bank, and with what the Skipper called ‘a brattling brooklet’ in front, about two hundred yards from the lake.

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Below was heard the ceaseless brattle of the waters, as they ran over and amongst the rocks which probably constituted the debris formed in the convulsion that opened this chasm.

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Better the nag that ambles a' the day than him that makes a brattle for a mile and then's dune wi' the road.

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