Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rattling or clattering sound.
- noun A movement that produces such a sound.
- intransitive verb To make a rattling or clattering sound, especially by rushing or scampering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a loud rumbling or rattling noise; thunder.
- To move rapidly with a clattering noise.
- noun A clattering noise like that made by the feet of horses moving rapidly.
- noun Rapid motion; a short rapid race.
- noun A violent attack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
rattle ; to make a scampering noise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a rattling sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Links to this post bad day at the brattle worth seeing • A crane collapsed into the alley next to the Brattle Bookshop, critically injuring one crane operator and killing the other.
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 bad day at the brattle worth seeing • A crane collapsed into the alley next to the Brattle Bookshop, critically injuring one crane operator and killing the other.
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A prime example of this systemic program weakness (aptly spun by the network and Russert's pals as a positive during the interminably long post-Russert death rattle brattle on television) was this past Sunday when Gov.
Beverly Davis: Time to Bury the "Meet the Press" Format 2008
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I tend to vote for democrats though because of the social issues because I can't stand listening to a republican brattle on about family values bullshit.
David Mamet writes about "this worldview with which I now found myself disenchanted: that everything is always wrong." Ann Althouse 2008
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One by one the others perform the same feat, and continue the sport for hours, striving which can produce the loudest brattle while turning.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Just in the heart of the brattle the grating of the yett turning on its rusty hinges was but too plainly heard.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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Such was Whittier on one side, a militant poet of reform, sending forth verses that had the brattle of trumpets and the waving of banners in them:
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Might aiblins waur'd thee for a brattle; [perhaps have beat, spurt]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Stuyvesant with a silver bullet; a black-looking scoundrel with a split lip, who used to brattle about the tavern at Corlaer's Hook, and who tumbled into East River while trying to lug an iron chest aboard of a suspicious craft that had stolen in to shore in a fog.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 09 : as to buried treasure 1879
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