clatter

1. (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.Examples: "When all the bees are gone to settle, / You clatter still your brazen kettle."; "When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones: […]"; "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, / And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; […]"intransitive

2. (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.Examples: "But if that I knewe what his name hight, / For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; / For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, / I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]"; "Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling."intransitive

3. (Northern England) To hit; to smack.Examples: ""I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”"; "“An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up."Northern-England