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brattling

brattling is the present participle and gerund of brattle.

Noun

brattling (plural brattlings)

  1. A rattling or scampering noise.
  2. (East-Anglia, Northamptonshire, UK, in plural) Loppings from felled trees.

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

Forms of brattling

pluralbrattlings

Questions about brattling

What does brattling mean?
Brattling means a rattling or scampering noise.
What is brattling the present participle and gerund of?
Brattling is the present participle and gerund of brattle.
What part of speech is brattling?
Brattling is a noun.
What is the plural of brattling?
The plural of brattling is brattlings.

Words near brattling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brattling (page history and authors); brattle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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