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Flutter   /flˈətər/   Listen
noun
Flutter  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"
2.
Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
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.


verb
Flutter  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."





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"Flutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Amid a flutter of flags and the cheers of onlookers, the 'ocean policeman,' H.M.S. Speedy, first took to the water on May 18th, 1893. Its birthplace was the banks of the Thames at Chiswick, but hardly had it settled itself on the smooth surface ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... but from the practical point of view it presents grave difficulties. Nothing is so pitifully ineffective as a flag in a dead calm, drooping nervelessly against the mast; and though, no doubt, by an ingenious arrangement of electric fans, it might be possible to make this flag flutter in the breeze, the very fact of its doing so would tend to set the audience wondering by what mechanism the effect was produced, instead of attending to the soul-struggles of Rita and Allmers. It would be absurd to blame Ibsen for overriding theatrical prudence ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... fell; there came a long slow-growing silence; and then, with a flutter, she was beside him again, laughing in his ears and crying with ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... get into a low-lying two-seater built on racing lines, heard a laugh flutter into the air, watched the tail light sweep round the drive and become smaller and smaller along ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... reverent listener, and gave herself up, half against her will and conscience, to the guidance of a man whom she knew to be her inferior in morals and in orthodoxy. She had worshipped intellect, and now it had become her tyrant; and she was ready to give up every belief which she once had prized, to flutter like a moth ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley


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