Made a loud, rattling noise made by hard objects striking together repeatedly.
From Middle English clateren, likely imitative in origin (onomatopoeia) from Old English or Old Norse, expressing the sound of metal or hard objects colliding.
Onomatopoeia like 'clatter' are some of the oldest types of words in English because humans naturally mimic sounds—when you hear dishes clatter, your ancestors 5,000 years ago heard that same noise and named it the same way.
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