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brattles

brattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brattle.

Meaning of brattle

Verb

brattle (third-person singular simple present brattles, present participle brattling, simple past and past participle brattled)

  1. (intransitive) To rattle; to make a scampering noise.
    • Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 6

Questions about brattles

What is brattles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Brattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brattle.

Words near brattles in the dictionary

  1. brattitude
  2. brattle
  3. Brattleboro
  4. Brattleboros
  5. brattled
  6. brattles
  7. brattling
  8. brattlings
  9. Bratton
  10. Bratton Fleming
  11. Brattons

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