▪ I. brattling, vbl. n.
(ˈbrætlɪŋ)
[f. brattle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb to brattle; the production of harsh rattling sounds.
| a 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. (1793) I. 34 The bursting, belching, and brattling of the French horns. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 35 His voice sounded not unlike the brattling of a tin trumpet. 1821 Byron Sardan. iii. i. 394 As a lute's [voice] pierceth through the cymbal's clash, Jarr'd but not drown'd by the loud brattling. |
▪ II. brattling, ppl. a.
(ˈbrætlɪŋ)
[f. brattle v. + -ing2.]
That brattles: see the verb.
| 1820 W. Irving Sketch-bk. (1849) 420 The hoarse brattling tone of a veteran boatswain. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 136 To gie them [dogs]..a brattlin run o thretty miles after a fox. 1860 J. Kennedy Horseshoe R. i. 11 A rough and brattling mountain torrent. 1863 J. Ingelow Poems 178 She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea. |