brattle

American  

[brat-l] / ˈbræt l /

noun

1. a clattering noise.

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verb (used without object)

brattled, brattling

1. to scamper noisily.

Etymology

Origin of brattle

1495–1505; imit; see rattle ¹

Example Sentences

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

As Burns happens to use bickering as his epithet for the mouse's brattle, we may take this word as another illustration of Littr�'s principle.

From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John

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

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

Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickerin brattle!

From A Day with the Poet Burns by Anonymous