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
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
Flaught and flail, Fire and hail: Winds arise, and tempests brattle, And, if you will, the thunders rattle.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
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
"Is it because there comes an accidental brattle of thunder?" he returned.
From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
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
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
These words were followed by another clang, louder and more brattling than the first.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
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