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clack

  [klak]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to make a quick, sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking or cracking: The loom clacked busily under her expert hands.
2. to talk rapidly and continually or with sharpness and abruptness; chatter.
3. to cluck or cackle.
–verb (used with object)
4. to utter by clacking.
5. to cause to clack: He clacked the cup against the saucer.
–noun
6. a clacking sound.
7. something that clacks, as a rattle.
8. rapid, continual talk; chatter.
Origin:
1200–50; ME clacken; imit.
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clack   (klāk)   
v.   clacked, clack·ing, clacks

v.   intr.

  1. To make an abrupt, sharp sound, as in the collision of two hard surfaces.

  2. To chatter thoughtlessly or at length.

  3. To cackle or cluck, as a hen.

v.   tr.
To cause to make an abrupt, sharp sound.
n.  

  1. A clacking sound: the clack of an old-fashioned typewriter.

  2. Something that makes a clacking sound.

  3. Thoughtless, prolonged talk; chatter.


[Middle English clakken, from Old Norse klaka, of imitative origin.]
clack'er n.
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Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

clack 
c.1250, from O.N. klaka "to chatter," of echoic origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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