brattle
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of brattle
1495–1505; imit; see rattle 1
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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
It is possible that brattle has fallen into disuse through too indiscriminate application.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by John Sargeaunt
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
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
And above all, mingled with all–always, everywhere–the brattle of cornet and trombone, the whang of piano, the wail of violin, the tinkle of the noble harp, an aristocrat in base company, weeping its own downfall.
From Claim Number One by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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
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 noise of the riven beam was like the brattling of thunder.
From The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
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
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