dial. [cf. CLATTER v. 1 b.] A mass of loose boulders or shattered stones; so called on Dartmoor.
1865. Gosse, Land & Sea (1874), 396. Rooting out a crown of the hay-scented fern from the foot of the ‘clatter,’ as a mass of granite so situated is provincially termed.
1873. Quart. Rev., CXXXV. 142. Spires and clatters of grey rock—as the long streams of shattered stone are locally called.
1882. Pall Mall Gaz., 28 July, 4/1. Under shelter of the biggest rocks in the whole clatter…. The word is good moorland English for a mass of loose, weathered boulders on the sky-line summit of a saddle-back ridge.
