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clacket

clacket verb: to move with a clackety sound.

Verb

clacket (third-person singular simple present clackets, present participle clacketing, simple past and past participle clacketed)

  1. (intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
    • Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.1998, Helen Garner, My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, page 116
    • The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.2015 July 10, “Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter”, in The Guardian
  2. (UK, intransitive, regional) To chatter or prattle.
    • You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis

Forms of clacket

third-person singular presentclackets
present participleclacketing
past participleclacketed
pastclacketed

Questions about clacket

What does clacket mean?
Clacket means to move with a clackety sound.
What part of speech is clacket?
Clacket is a verb.
What is the past tense of clacket?
The past tense of clacket is clacketed.

Words near clacket in the dictionary

  1. clacker
  2. clacker balls
  3. clackerbag
  4. clackerbags
  5. clackers
  6. clacket
  7. clacketed
  8. clacketing
  9. clackets
  10. clackety
  11. clacking

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