clacked
clacked is the simple past and past participle of clack.
Meaning of clack
Verb
clack (third-person singular simple present clacks, present participle clacking, simple past and past participle clacked)
- To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
- We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
- To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
- To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
- There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
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- Clacked is the simple past and past participle of clack.
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