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▪ I. † ˈclacket, n. Obs.
[ad. F. claquet, f. claquer, to clack; cf. Cotgr. claquet de moulin, the clapper, or clacke, of a mill-hopper.]
1. = clacker n.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. (1594) 118 Wee may..compare their tongue to the clacket of a mill. 1611Cotgr., Clac..(most properly) the clacket that frights away birds from fruit-trees, etc.
2. Clacking, vigorous, and incessant chatter.
1812Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. vi. 189 In the midst of a universal clacket of female tongues.
▪ II. ˈclacket, v.|ˈklækɛt|
[a. F. claqueter, to chatter with the teeth, or make similar sound, f. claquet clapper.]
trans. and intr. To chatter, clack.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. (1569) I. 61 His teethe clacketing in his head. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. on Tim. 890/2 Three houres space wil not bee ynough for them to clackket out halfe that they would say. 1880F. M. Peard Mother Molly iii. 33 The hen..flew from side to side of the road, clucking and clackiting as though she were already being killed. 1904W. M. Gallichan Fishing Spain 144 Felicia stalked out, her wooden shoes clacketing upon the road. |