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
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 The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle; I think me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scaur!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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
Thou need na start awa' sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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 noise of the riven beam was like the brattling of thunder.
From The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
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
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
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