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