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.
© Webster 1913.
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.
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