Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Clatter

Clatter , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon cla{not transcribed}rung a rattle, akin to Dutch klateren to rattle. Compare 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

Clatter , transitive verb

To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle. — Swift

Clatter , noun

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