Definitions | brattle |
| verb (brattl, ing)
- To rattle; to make a scampering noise
- 1972: Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds. " John Gardner, Grendel (London 1972, p. 6)
Etymology: Apparently imitative, probably under influence of break + rattle.
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