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Clack   /klæk/   Listen
verb
Clack  v. t.  
1.
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
2.
To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. (Eng.)


Clack  v. i.  (past & past part. clacked; pres. part. clacking)  
1.
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. "We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches."
2.
To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.


noun
Clack  n.  
1.
A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
2.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
3.
Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating. "Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack."
Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice.
Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve.
Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.





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"Clack" Quotes from Famous Books



... still had its meaning and application. When the smith's hammer resounded, it cried, "Strike away! strike away." When the carpenter's plane grated, it said, "Here goes! here goes." If the mill wheel began to clack, it said, "Help, Lord God! help, Lord God!" And if the miller was a cheat and happened to leave the mill, it spoke high German, and first asked slowly, "Who is there? Who is there?" and then answered quickly, "The miller! the miller!" and at last quite in a hurry, "He steals bravely! he steals ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers
... duke? yes, your beggar of fifty;—and his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too: that ...
— Measure for Measure • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... while ago there lived near the Clack-clack Mountains an old man and his wife, who, having no child, made a great deal of a pet hare. Every day the old man cut up food and set it out on a plate for ...
— Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... clack of the gate she stood in suspense. It was a bright grey day. Paul came into the yard with his bicycle, which glittered as he walked. Usually he rang his bell and laughed towards the house. To-day he walked with shut lips and cold, cruel bearing, that ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... feature in the ball turning machine shown opposite is that the tool is stationary, while the work revolves in two directions simultaneously. In the case of an ordinary spherical object, such as brass clack ball, the casting is made from a perfect pattern having two small caps or shanks, in which the centers are also marked to avoid centering by hand. It is fixed in the machine between two centers carried on a face ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various


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