flutterv. 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.)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.()