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pattering


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Patter  \Pat"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pattered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Pattering}.]  [Freq.  of  pat  to  strike  gently.] 
  1.  To  strike  with  a  quick  succession  of  slight,  sharp  sounds; 
  as  pattering  rain  or  hail;  pattering  feet. 
 
  The  stealing  shower  is  scarce  to  patter  heard. 
  --Thomson. 
 
  2.  To  mutter;  to  mumble;  as  to  patter  with  the  lips. 
  --Tyndale.  [In  this  sense  and  in  the  following,  perh. 
  from  paternoster.] 
 
  3.  To  talk  glibly;  to  chatter;  to  harangue.  [Colloq.] 
 
  I've  gone  out  and  pattered  to  get  money.  --Mayhew. 




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