Meanings
present singular third person clitters · participle present clittering · participle past clittered · past clittered
- To clatter lightly; to make a soft rattling noise.
Howard […] was even more aware of something else. A clittering sound. It was coming from behind him, and it was getting closer.
1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
plural clitters
- countableuncountableLoose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.
A ‘clitter’ or ‘clatter’ is a mass of boulders: it may be in the nature of a scree at the foot of the parent rock, or it may be more or less far removed from any rock exposure to which its origin can be directly attributed.
1967 [1953], R.Hansford Worth, chapter 1, in G.M. Spooner, F.S. Russell, editors, Worth’s Dartmoor, Newton Abbott: David and Charles, →ISBN, page 24Synonyms: scree
Synonyms & antonyms
nounLoose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.
More synonyms by meaning
verbmake a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Related to clatter.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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