Flutter \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.
Flutter \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.
Their hands flutter in the air, jingle pocket change, brush foreheads, clamp onto hips, yank at noses.
Second, it would fulfil the apparently widespread needs of business and personal clients to indulge in an occasional flutter. Finally, it would lead to the development of new products.
British bookies are having a flutter with new technology in an attempt to win customers.
Thousands of plastic PRI banners flutter from the Spanish colonial aqueduct that bisects the city.
The stock market is already speculating about the winners and losers in this furious flutter. Football pools are bound to be hit.
This caused a flutter on Wall Street in June.
He thought it worth a flutter and secured it for Pounds 1,650. It turned out to be a major discovery, an early secular manuscript on astronomy, produced in Rimini around 1455.
Atop the shattered mud villages, above the tents pitched by nomads and in the fields where camels graze, the black and white and red and green flags of the Moslem resistance flutter in the breeze.
Not for him a quick flutter on the back of a golf club tip.