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
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
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
Thou needna start awa' sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!
From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt
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
The N.E.D. explains this as 'to run with brattling feet, to scamper'.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by John Sargeaunt
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
The storm continued with unabated fury: the red lightning played around him, the brattling thunder stunned him, and the pelting rain poured down upon his head.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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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