Read full poem →Dragged noisily along
With a clatter of wheels and bells
And a humming of wires overhead.
Dictionary Entry
A loud, sharp noise made by things falling or striking each other, or the sound of such a noise.
In a Sentence
“The dishes fell from the shelf with a loud clatter.”
Origin
Middle English, likely of imitative origin.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “clatter”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Read full poem →In the street here and there, and on the stones
A stumbling clatter as of horse hemmed round.
Then, when she saw me hurry out of doors,
Read full poem →Dragged noisily along
With a clatter of wheels and bells
And a humming of wires overhead.
Read full poem →Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The starlings make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Read full poem →Till for his sake I’m slighted sair,
And dree the kintra clatter:
But tho’ my back be at the wa’,
Read full poem →Ye speak sae fair.
For my puir, silly, rhymin clatter
Some less maun sair.
Read full poem →When skirlin' weanies see the light,
Thou maks the gossips clatter bright,
How fumblin' cuifs their dearies slight;
Read full poem →With Elliot to head me,
I'd clatter on my stumps
At the sound of a drum.
Read full poem →Where is his mother? He can't be out alone."
And now he comes again with a clatter of stone
And mounts the wall again with whited eyes