tock

plural tocks

1. A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.

   When Cyrus left her there by herself she stood quite still and listened to the sounds, a variety of ticks and tocks, faint beats and flutters.

   2022, Ian Crouch, A Pyrrhic Victory Volume III — Fate, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, page 367

present singular third person tocks · participle present tocking · participle past tocked · past tocked

1. To produce such a sound.

   The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.

   2002, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann

   1 more example

   The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.

   1967, William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin