Clack Definition

klăk
clacked, clacking, clacks
verb
clacked, clacking, clacks
To make a sudden, sharp sound, as by striking two hard substances together.
Webster's New World
To talk fast, foolishly, etc.; chatter.
Webster's New World
To cause to make a sudden, sharp sound.
Webster's New World
To cluck or cackle.
Webster's New World

(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

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noun
clacks
A sudden, sharp sound.
Webster's New World
A device that makes such sounds.
Webster's New World
Chatter.
Webster's New World

An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk.

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Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

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Singular:
clack
Plural:
clacks

Origin of Clack

  • From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian ("to slap, clap, clack"; suggested by clacu (“din; harm, injury”)), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glag- (“to make a noise, clap, twitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to roop, scream, shout”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).

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  • Middle English clakken from Old Norse klaka of imitative origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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