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.
Wiktionary
n. A sound that clacks. vb. (present participle of clack English)
Usage examples of "clacking".
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.
Its rider, a terrifying figure with shoulder-length braids, a long mustache woven with rows of fingerbones, and a sleeveless fur jerkin, shouted at her in his clacking heathen language and kicked his horse toward her.
After a few seconds there came a machine-gun clacking from a printed device beside the clerk who was processing Fred, and some official looking papers emerged.
A braided rope of skulls was tied to the pommel, clacking with every step of the nervous pony.
The hood fell away and the robe fell open and there in the midst of the cabin a grinning skeleton stared out at them through empty eye sockets and wept through clacking teeth.
There, clacking and chattering in the midst of the fire was a hellish and jerking skeleton, dangling above the flames like a marionette.
There were humming sounds in the dim, watery green of the room, and rhythmic chuggings, sighings, clackings.