clatter
verb (used without object)
to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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She is clattering away busily at her machine whilst Morell opens the last of his morning's letters.
From Candida by Bernard Shaw