Patter: alternatives and connections

Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of a…

From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapp…

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…

the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail.

A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.

A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of…

That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, sto…

To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike bac…

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some; "little rain fell…

Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.

Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick…