clacket

verb — 2 senses

clacket

verb
1

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, 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:

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