clacket

present singular third person clackets · participle present clacketing · participle past clacketed · past clacketed

1. intransitiveTo move with a clackety sound.

   Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.

   1998, Helen Garner, My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, page 116

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   The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.

   2015 July 10, “Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter”, in The Guardian

2. UKintransitiveregionalTo chatter or prattle.

   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.

   1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis