"clattering" definition, meaning, and origin

Adjective

In a state or process of being clattered.
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A noise that clatters.
- Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings, together with low clatterings, approached her ear. - 1844, Fredrika Bremer, The...
- The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and...