To make a rattling sound.
When all the bees are gone to settle, / You clatter still your brazen kettle.
To chatter noisily or rapidly.
But if that I knewe what his name hight, / For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; / For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, / I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]
To hit; to smack.
"I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.
The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
A loud disturbance.
From Middle English clatren (“to make a rattling sound”), from Old English *clatrian (attested as the Late Old English gerund clatrung), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Dutch klateren, kletteren. The ...
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Noisy talk or chatter.