clitter

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verb clitters · clittering · clittered

  1. 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.

noun clitters

  1. countable, uncountable Loose 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.

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