Definition of Fluttir
Flut"ter (?), v. t. 1.
To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its
wings.
2. To drive in disorder; to throw into
confusion.
Like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
Shak.
Flut"ter, n. 1.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration;
as, the flutter of a fan.
The chirp and flutter of some single
bird Milnes. .
2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind;
confusion; disorder. Pope.
Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a
fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the
floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it
makes.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- to flap or wave quickly but irregularly
- (of a bird or insect) to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings
- to cause something to flutter
- the act of fluttering
- a state of agitation
- an abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart
- (British) a small bet
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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