noun. The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

verb. Present participle of chatter.

noun. A noise that chatters.

noun. Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition.

noun. the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

noun. the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

"The fall through leafy branches and the dizzy heights; the snakes that struck at me as I dodged and leaped away in chattering flight; the wild dogs that hunted me across the open spaces to the timber -- these were terrors concrete and actual, happenings and not imaginings, things of the living flesh and of sweat and blood."

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battering  clattering  flattering  nattering  scattering  

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