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clatter



clatter/ˈklætə $ -ər/ verb
[Language : Old English; Origin : clatrian]
1. [INTRANSITIVE]
if heavy hard objects clatter, or if you clatter them, they make a loud unpleasant noise:
  ▪ The tray slipped and clattered to the floor.

2. [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
to move quickly and noisily:
  ▪ children clattering up and down the stairs

—clatter noun [SINGULAR, UNCOUNTABLE]:
  ▪ the clatter of dishes

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
down
Willie rose and clattered down the hallway.
Massive curtains of rain clattered down from wrathful skies, and the streets were full of swishing Audis and Mercedes.
The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs.
She clattered down the steps - noise is reassuring - and entered the church.
Helpless, he toppled forward into blackness: his hand went limp and the knife clattered down on to the foot-rest.
I raced back to the house, clattered down the hall and jumped behind the wheel of my Nova.
I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market.
He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom.
NOUN
floor
As he yanked one out for himself, something clattered loudly to the floor.
The phone clattered to the shower floor.
Something clattered on the tile floor, behind a frothing bed of shrubs.
They clatter on to the floor loudly.
His gun clattered noisily to the floor.
Something heavy fell out of his pocket and clattered to the floor and lay hunched and dark.
stair
Two hours later we clatter down the stairs of a West End restaurant feeling like two plum puddings on legs.
The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs.
He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom.
I just flourished an arm and clattered down the stairs.
They heard her clatter down the basement stairs to her room.
The soldier walked ahead of me, holding his sword in his left hand so that it didn't clatter against the stairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
All the pots clattered to the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below.
He picked out something from the shelves and made a clattering U-turn.
Her heart was clattering inside her.
Her splayed arms sent the dishes clattering.
His gun clattered noisily to the floor.
Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clattering pile.

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