clitter
English edit
Etymology edit
Related to clatter.
Verb edit
clitter (third-person singular simple present clitters, present participle clittering, simple past and past participle clittered)
- To clatter lightly; to make a soft rattling noise.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
- Howard […] was even more aware of something else. A clittering sound. It was coming from behind him, and it was getting closer.
Noun edit
clitter (countable and uncountable, plural clitters)
- Loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.
- 1967 [1953], R.Hansford Worth, chapter 1, in G.M. Spooner, F.S. Russell, editors, Worth’s Dartmoor, Newton Abbott: David and Charles, →ISBN, page 24:
- A ‘clitter’ or ‘clatter’ is a mass of boulders: it may be in the nature of a scree at the foot of the parent rock, or it may be more or less far removed from any rock exposure to which its origin can be directly attributed.