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; 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

List'ning the doors an' winnocks rattle; I think me on the ourie cattle, Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war, And thro' the drift, deep-lairing sprattle, Beneath a scaur!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

The delusion is complete, when, on a mild evening, the tree-toads open their brittle- brattle chorus on the edge of the pond.

From The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Warner, Charles Dudley

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

“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 Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas