brattlen.
/ˈbrat(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈbræd(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈbrat(ə)l/ Chiefly Scottish.
1. A smart rattling sound, esp. of something breaking or bursting.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > rattling
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 155 His birnes brak and maid ane brattill.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xi. 96 The hydduus scheild abufe him mayd a brattyll.
1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha (ed. 2) 81 There comes an accidental brattle of thunder.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxi. 426 [Each] striving which can produce the loudest brattle while turning.
1870 Daily News 3 Sept. 5 The brattle of a drum under my window.
2. The sound or onset of sharp rattling blows.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun]
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a1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (1821) 75 Ȝe dou not byde a brattill.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 200 Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle O' winter war.
3. The sound of scampering feet; a resounding scamper, rush, or spurt.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > sound of footsteps > scampering
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a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 79 Bauld Bess flew till him wi a brattle.
1786 R. Burns To Mouse in Poems 138 Thou need na start awa..Wi' bickering brattle!
1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 294 A breast-brushing brattle down the brae.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
brattlev.
/ˈbrat(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈbræd(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈbrat(ə)l/ Chiefly Scottish.
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a. intransitive. To produce a forcible rattling noise.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > rattle > of an agent
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1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados vii. Prol. 133 Branchis brattlyng, and blaiknyt schew the brayis.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 51 Harsh engines brattled night and day.
b. with cognate object.
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1852 D. M. Moir Winter Wild vii His iron heels..Brattling afar their under-song.
2. To rush with rattling noise, as a mountain brook over a stony bed; to bicker. Originally Scottish.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > with agitated movement or rush
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1850 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. (ed. 2) xxxi. 457 A mossy streamlet comes brattling from the hill.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 18 Many little livelier runlets that brattle down the green hills on each side.
1882 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 472 The becks that brattle through the brake.
3. To run with brattling feet; to scamper. Scottish.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii Our twa herds come brattling down the brae.
1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 382 Brattle not away so, ye foolish lambs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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