- Noisy talk - To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies
together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. - To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. - To make a rattling noise with. - A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard
bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds. - Commotion; disturbance. - Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
- Crash - The act of striking together; a striking together, as of
two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. - A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
- Belittle - Hit - Nick - Rap on a door - To drive or be driven against something; to strike
against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. - To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door. - To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by
striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball
with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the
table.
- An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at
the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind
of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the
smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones
are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to
flexible sticks.