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)
- 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
- 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 present | clackets |
|---|---|
| present participle | clacketing |
| past participle | clacketed |
| past | clacketed |
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
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