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
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 Burns, Robert
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.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
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 White, Adam
The delusion is complete, when, on a mild evening, the tree-toads open their brittle- brattle chorus on the edge of the pond.
From The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Warner, Charles Dudley
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 Kipling, Rudyard
Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
The noise of the riven beam was like the brattling of thunder.
From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish
These words were followed by another clang, louder and more brattling than the first.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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
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 Sargeaunt, John
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