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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Making or uttering sharp, abrupt sounds, as by a collision of sonorous bodies; talking fast with noise; rattling.

Noun.

A rattling noise.

clattering

clattering ‎(plural clatterings)

A noise that clatters.
- 1844, Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life (page 59)
  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.