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aclatter

aclatter adjective: clattering, making or filled with a clattering sound.

Adjective

aclatter (not comparable)

  1. Clattering, making or filled with a clattering sound.
    • I hear the hoofs a-clatter.1907, W. B. Yeats, Deirdre, London: A. H. Bullen, page 9
    • It ain’t an easy job, directing traffic at ’Yde Park Corner. Buses and ’ansom cabs. All a-clatter on the cobbles.1941, Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1965, page 188

Adverb

aclatter (not comparable)

  1. Clattering, with a clatter.
    • The wet sack collapsing aclatter on the ground.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, New York: Vintage, page 455

Origin of aclatter

From a- + clatter.

Questions about aclatter

What does aclatter mean?
Aclatter means clattering, making or filled with a clattering sound.
What part of speech is aclatter?
Aclatter can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near aclatter in the dictionary

  1. aclantate
  2. aclarubicin
  3. aclasia
  4. aclasis
  5. aclastic
  6. aclatter
  7. acle
  8. ACLED
  9. acleidian
  10. acleioproctic
  11. acleistocardia

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