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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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