Dictionary entry

Clatter (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. “Hold still thy clatter.” Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent.).

Throw by your clatter

And handle the matter.

B. Jonson