brattlingn.
/ˈbratlɪŋ/ The action of the verb to brattle v.; the production of harsh rattling sounds.
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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
brattle?a1513
rattle?a1513
brittle-brattle1535
rattling1555
rottle1680
brattling1771
tirl1808
rittle-rattle1837
rickle1867
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 61 The bursting, belching, and brattling of the French-horns.
1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. i. v. 63 His voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpet.
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iii. i. 103 As a lute's [voice] pierceth through the cymbal's clash, Jarr'd but not drown'd by the loud brattling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
brattlingadj.
/ˈbratlɪŋ/ That brattles: see the verb.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > rattling
rattlinga1398
brattling1820
railing1843
rattlesome1861
rattly1881
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 338 The hoarse brattling tone of a veteran boatswain.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 504 To gie them [sc. dogs]..a brattlin' rin o' thretty miles after a fox.
1860 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson (rev. ed.) i. 11 A rough and brattling mountain torrent.
1863 J. Ingelow Poems 178 She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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