The action of the vb. CLUTTER, in various senses.
1577. Dee, Relat. Spir., I. (1659), 6. Thumping, shuffing, and cluttering.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIV. xci. (1612), 369. The noueltie of Cooches scath’d me so, As from their drifts and cluttering I knew not where to go.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., V. x. 160. The cluttering of Trees together to keep the Sun off from him.
1843. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., xxxvi. Noisy with the … cluttering of fowls in coops.
1878. trans. Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., XIV. 817. The defect of speech called by … the English Cluttering.
