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▪ I. chack, v.1|tʃæk|
In 6 chak.
[In sense 1 imitative of the sound and action; cf. clack; senses 2 and 3 may be distinct words.]
1. Chiefly Sc. To snap with the teeth; to squeeze or crush with a snap of the jaws or by the sudden shutting of a window, door, drawer, or the like; also to make a noise like that of snapping teeth, to clack, clatter, click. Also gen., of the cry of a bird. Hence ˈchacking ppl. a.
1513Douglas æneis xii. xii. 152 With hys wyd chaftis at hym makis a snak The byt oft falȝeis for ocht he do mycht And chakkis waist togiddir his wapynnis wycht. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 390 The cais chakkit to suddanlie, but ony motion or werk of mortall creaturis. 1697Cleland Poems 35 (Jam.) Some's teeth for cold did chack and chatter. 1801Hogg Scot. Pastoral 23 (Jam.) For..chackin' mice, and houkin' moudies, His match was never made. 1919Masefield Reynard the Fox 56 A blue uneasy jay was chacking. 1924J. A. Thomson Science Old & New iv. 22 Numerous ‘chacking’ wheatears with brilliantly white rump feathers. 1929Masefield Hawbucks 316 An owl came down..and tore something, with chacking cries between the tears.
2. ‘Used of a horse that beats upon the hand when his head is not steady; but he tosses up his nose, and shakes it all of a sudden, to avoid the subjection of the bridle’ (Bailey Vol. II. 1731; and repeated in mod. Dicts.). ? Obs.
▪ II. chack, n. Sc.|tʃæk|
[f. prec., or of parallel formation.]
1. The act of chacking (in sense 1).
2. A ‘bite’ (of food); a snack.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxiv, ‘[An] invitation to come back and take part o' his family-chack, at ane preceesely.’ 1824― Redgauntlet Let. ix, He..gives a bit chack of dinner to his friends. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iv. x. (1849) 181 Take a chack of supper. 1852Carlyle Let. 20 Sept., Glad to get to the inn..and there procure some chack of dinner.
3. A local name of the Wheat-ear, also called (from its note) chack-bird, chacker, stone-chacker and check.
1804W. Tarras Poems 10 (Jam.) Death—trailt him aff i' his dank car, As dead's a chackart. 1805Barry Orkney 308 (Jam.) The White Ear—here denominated the chack.
▪ III. chack
Sc. f. check v. |