Definitions for clatter

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clatter clat·ter

Spelling: [klat-er]

IPA: /ˈklæt ər/

Clatter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in clatter (acelrtt).

Definitions for clatter

noun

1. a rattling noise or series of rattling noises:
2. noisy disturbance; din; racket.
3. noisy talk; din of voices:
4. idle talk; gossip.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to clatter:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other:
2. to move rapidly with such a sound:
3. to talk fast and noisily; chatter:

Origin of clatter

before 1050; Middle English clateren, Old English clatr- (in clatrunge); cognate with Dutch klateren to rattle; see -er⁶

Examples for clatter

With them he fences heroically and causes a sufficiency of clatter and noise.

The clatter of hoofs was growing louder with each passing second.

He threw the helmet with a clatter on to the table as if it had been the knave's canting head.

And let me tell you that the spoons in the plates made a clatter.

But timing is always unpredictable, and all the clatter around the film could have swallowed up I Am Abraham.

There was a clatter and rattle of speeding hoofs, which rapidly died out.

This place resounded with cries, songs, and the clatter of plates and dishes.

He entered in the clatter of the shop bell with an air of sombre and vexed exhaustion.

The clatter of crockery did not cease in the adjoining room.

"We would have heard the clatter of his motor if he had," returned Rob.