The Collaborative International Dictionary
clitter
clitter \clitter\ v. i. to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers.
Syn: stridulate.
Wiktionary
clitter
n. Loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.
WordNet
clitter
v. make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate" [syn: stridulate]
Usage examples of "clitter".
A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
The wings flapped jerkily, click, clock, clitter clock, and the machines drove up.
Every now and then she’d also hear a clink and a clitter as a tile was torn off.
He hears not the clitter of mice on wood but a human gasp and the scrabbling of fingers on another's arm, seeking attention.