click-clack
verbEtymology From click + clack. Compare Dutch klik klak, geklikklak (“click-clack”).
1
To move with alternate clicking and clacking sounds.
- Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, "Gedup," in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171: