Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. t. To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle. --Swift.
Clatter \Clat"ter\, n. 1. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter. --Tennyson.
2. Commotion; disturbance. ``Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story.'' --Barrow.
Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. --B. Jonson
Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clattering}.] [AS. cla?rung a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. {Clack}.] 1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
Clattering loud with iron clank. --Longfellow.
2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
I see thou dost but clatter. --Spenser.
A nasty clatter after the piece ended could have been Le Spectre de Michel Fokine expressing an opinion on this ludicrous staging. What Fokine might have said about the programme's finale, Scheherazade, does not bear contemplation.
At night, the silence is absolute, save for the occasional jingle and clatter of a passing horse and cart.
Horse-drawn carriages clatter over cobblestones on foggy London nights.