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clackbox

clackbox is the alternative form of clack box.

Meaning of clack box

Noun

clack box (plural clack boxes)

  1. The box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
    • The connecting pipe between a locomotive injector and the boiler, through which the water is forced into the boiler against the steam pressure within, is provided with a "clack-valve," which allows the water to pass in the inward direction only and not the outward; this is housed in a "clack-box"....1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Clack-Boxes”, in Railway Magazine, page 129
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) A person's tongue or mouth.
  3. (UK, obsolete, slang) A garrulous person; a chatterbox.

Forms of clackbox

pluralclackboxes

Questions about clackbox

What is clackbox the alternative form of?
Clackbox is the alternative form of clack box.

Words near clackbox in the dictionary

  1. clack valves
  2. clacka
  3. Clackamas
  4. Clackamas County
  5. clackas
  6. clackbox
  7. clackboxes
  8. clackdish
  9. clackdishes
  10. clacked
  11. clacker

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