Made a loud clattering or rattling noise; rattled or clattered.
Past tense of brattle, formed by adding the regular past tense suffix -ed.
In medieval texts, writers used 'brattled' to describe the sound of armored soldiers moving—it's the auditory equivalent of chaos that tells readers a battle or emergency is happening without saying the word.
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