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Pronunciation : Flut"ter
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Flut"ter
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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