Synonyms:
chatter, chattering
Meaning: the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
Usage examples
I gripped my stick, and stood up facing him. He began chattering.
I thought our gentlemen would be asleep, but I heard them chattering.
Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam.
He shoves his old nose right through the smash in the pane, and wags his old head at me like a chattering magpie.
Manu, the monkey, had seen the two Tarmangani pass two days before. Chattering and scolding, he told Tarzan all about it.
When he had gone about a hundred paces, he heard above him, in the branches of a tree, such a chattering and screaming that he looked up.
Her aunt's manner signalled to her the repeated message to "be bright"; for the present she was fully occupied in keeping her teeth from chattering.
Being hungry he swung to the lower branches and, amidst a great chattering of the monkeys, proceeded to eat such of the fruit as he saw the monkeys ate in safety.
"He," indicating the corpse on the floor, "said, 'I got here first.' Does that mean Kane was pursuing him here?" And as the Wolf nodded impatiently the other turned to the chests with chattering haste.
When we crowded joyfully round a crackling, sparkling wood-fire, even while our faces glowed with the intense heat, cold shivers were creeping down our backs, and sudden draughts from an opening door set our teeth chattering.