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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flutter \Flut"ter\, v. t.
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as a bird flutters its wings.
2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your
Volscians in Corioli --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flutter \Flut"ter\, n.
1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion;
vibration; as the flutter of a fan.
The chirp and flutter of some single bird --Milnes.
.
2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
--Pope.
{Flutter wheel}, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a
chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the
floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the
fluttering noise it makes
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
flutter
n 1: the act of moving back and forth [syn: {waver}, {flicker}]
2: the motion made by flapping up and down [syn: {flap}, {flapping},
{flopping}, {fluttering}]
v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart [syn: {flit}, {fleet},
{dart}]
2: move back and forth very rapidly, as of a candle [syn: {flicker},
{waver}, {flitter}, {quiver}]
3: beat rapidly, of the heart [syn: {palpitate}]
4: wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: {bat}]
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