PATTER
Pat"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pattering.]
Etym: [Freq. of pat to strike gently.]
1. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. Thomson.
2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. Etym: [In this sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]
3. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] I've gone out and pattered to get money. Mayhew.
PATTER
Pat"ter, v. t.
1. To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." J. R. Drake.
2. Etym: [See Patter, v. i., 2.]
Defn: To mutter; as prayers.
[The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. Longfellow.
To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]
PATTER
Pat"ter, n.
1. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.