clatter
/ˈklæɾɚ/ verb C2- To make a rattling sound.
- To chatter noisily or rapidly.
- To hit; to smack.
He/she/it clatters · Past clattered · Past participle clattered · -ing form clattering
Verb forms
- Base form
- clatter
- He/she/it
- clatters
- Past
- clattered
- Past participle
- clattered
- -ing form
- clattering
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As they drew near, the cow suddenly gave a kick and kicked over the stool, the pail, and even the milkmaid herself, and all fell on the china ground with a great clatter.
Drop it!” He struck out with his hand, and a revolver which the younger man was in the act of cocking clattered down upon the floor.
Once, I remember, as we passed over the Gemmi, and walked along the border of the melancholy Daubensee, a large rock which had been dislodged from the ridge upon our right clattered down and roared into the lake behind us.
There was the clatter of running feet upon the pavement, and two policemen in uniform, with one plain-clothes detective, rushed through the front entrance and into the room.
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