These are the meanings of the letters TECHRAT when you unscramble them.
- Chatter (n.)
Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
- Chatter (n.)
Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
- Chatter (v. i.)
To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- Chatter (v. i.)
To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
- Chatter (v. i.)
To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- Chatter (v. t.)
To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
- Ratchet (n.)
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
- Ratchet (n.)
A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.