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clack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clack \Clack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clacking.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. F.claquer to clap, crack, D. klakken, MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., Clatter, Click.]
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To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches.
--Thackeray. To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
Clack \Clack\, v. t.
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
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To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
--Feltham.To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]
Clack \Clack\, n. [Cf. F. claque a slap or smack, MHG. klac crack, W. clec crack, gossip. See Clack, v. t.]
A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
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Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack.
--South.Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice.
--Shak.Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve.
Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., not in Old English, from Old Norse klaka "to chatter," of echoic origin; compare Dutch klakken "to clack, crack," Old High German kleken, French claquer "to clap, crack (see claque). Related: Clacked; clacking.
mid-15c., from clack (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk 2 Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve. 3 chatter; prattle vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. 3 To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration. 4 (context UK English) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
WordNet
n. a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated [syn: clap]
a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clapper valve]
v. make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, brattle]
make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, click]
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
Wikipedia
Clack can refer to numerous people:
Usage examples of "clack".
Within the dark glistening of the corridors, where surface speaks to surface in tiny whispers like fingers, and the larger codes, the extirpated skeletons of a billion minds, clack together in a cemetery of logic, shaking hands, continually shaking bony, algorithmic hands and observing strict and necessary protocol for the purposes of destruction.
I was glued to my keyhole, mesmerized, as Fatty piped some command and a score of amahs clacked forward to parade the girls.
It clacked harmlessly on the wooden walk, a few feet short of Bogues, but it drew more attention.
Dodds clacking keyboard sounded more natural than the muffled burbling of the funnel or the squeals and creaks of the coaster.
Even the clacking of billiard balls, evoking slams, could take me there.
With its clacking letters and numbers, the display was designed around a large clock.
TV in the next cell, so I go back to clacking the balls, just watching them.
I take up clacking the metal balls again, until the other cons join in griping.
Ned said, coming up behind Father John, boots clacking against the wood floor.
And now Yap heard a new noise, a low buzzing and chirping and clacking and gnashing noise, the undercurrent of a thousand pairs of legs, wings, and mouths, and he suddenly realized what they were.
It let out a squeal and raced toward him, its six legs clacking hollow against the narrow steel shelf.
Hotter springs, lashing this superstructure with warm water, kept it in a perilous state of plasticity, so that chunks would break off from time to time, to fall clacking to the rock and gradually be washed away.
Culla followed, the mashies clacking together slowly, powerfully with the rhythm of his footsteps.
Clacking mandibles and soft, fleshy rips faded and welcome darkness cloaked the terrified farmer.
I, now of some fifteen summers, was pasturing the goats not far from the house, the sky darkened, and there came up so great a storm of thunder and lightning, and huge drift of rain, that I was afraid, and being so near to the house, I hastened thither, driving the goats, and when I had tethered them in the shed of the croft, I crept trembling up to the house, and when I was at the door, heard the clack of the loom in the weaving-chamber, and deemed that the woman was weaving there, but when I looked, behold there was no one on the bench, though the shuttle was flying from side to side, and the shed opening and changing, and the sley coming home in due order.