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Clack   /klæk/   Listen
verb
Clack  v. t.  
1.
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
2.
To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. (Eng.)


Clack  v. i.  (past & past part. clacked; pres. part. clacking)  
1.
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."
2.
To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.


noun
Clack  n.  
1.
A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
2.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
3.
Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating. "Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack."
Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice.
Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve.
Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.





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... 15th day of April, 1842, in virtue of the sentence of a court-martial regularly convened under orders from the Secretary of the Navy, which received my approval, John H. Clack, who was a captain in the Navy, was dismissed the service. Since the confirmation of that sentence a letter has been addressed by Mr. Paulding, late Secretary of the Navy, to Captain Clack, which leads to the belief that he had analyzed the charges made against Captain Clack, and for ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler - Section 2 (of 3) of Volume 4: John Tyler • Compiled by James D. Richardson
... of voices belonging to the unseen sailors; and the click-clack of oars working in the rowlocks also began ...
— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson
... and the clack and snarl of the banjo carried hardly further than the adjoining room; but there was no one to hear, and, as he went along, even Travis began to hum the words, but at that, Condy stopped abruptly, laid the instrument across his knees with ...
— Blix • Frank Norris
... and tastes to correspond, and what man can say more. I see visions, and am able to make them realities. I dream of a dovecote with a tiled roof, and straightway build it; I picture a gallery and a chapel and a library away from the clack of tongues, and behold there it is. The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee.' To see and dream without the power of performance is heart-breaking. To perform without the gift of imagination is soul-slaying. The man is blessed that ...
— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson
... thunder and lightning, and huge drift of rain, that I was afraid, and being so near to the house, I hastened thither, driving the goats, and when I had tethered them in the shed of the croft, I crept trembling up to the house, and when I was at the door, heard the clack of the loom in the weaving-chamber, and deemed that the woman was weaving there, but when I looked, behold there was no one on the bench, though the shuttle was flying from side to side, and the shed opening and changing, and the sley coming home in ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris


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