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clacket en · VERB
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(intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
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:Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.
1998, Helen Garner, My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, page 116:
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(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:
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