clacket
/ˈklakɪt
/verb (clackets, clacketing, clacketed) [no object]
Make a series of sharp sounds as a result of a hard object striking another: (as noun clacketing) the tranquil clacketing of the train...
- She could hear only the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page.
- As I sit here, clacketing away at the keyboard I'm looking at possible songs to plop up here on the server.
- There's an ice cream plant and softly clacketing, passing trains.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French claquet, from claquer 'to clack'.
- closed book
- closed caption
- closed chain
- closed-circuit television
- closed communion
- closed compound
- closed couplet
- closed-door
- closed-end
- closed-in
- close-down
- close down (or close something down)
- closed season
- closed shop
- closed syllable
- closed traverse
- closed universe
- close encounter
- close encounter of the first (or second etc.) kind
- close-fisted
- close-fitting
- close-fought
- Close, Glenn
- close-grained
- close harmony