clacket
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]clacket (third-person singular simple present clackets, present participle clacketing, simple past and past participle clacketed)
- (intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
- 1998, Helen Garner, My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, page 116:
- Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.
- 2015 July 10, “Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.
- (intransitive, UK, regional) To chatter or prattle.
- 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:
- You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.