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
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 need na start awa' sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickerin brattle!
From A Day with the Poet Burns by Anonymous
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
She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
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
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
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