单词 | brattling |
释义 | brattlingn. The action of the verb to brattle v.; the production of harsh rattling sounds. ΘΚΠ 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. That brattles: see the verb. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1771adj.1820 |
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