ru цо́канье (The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground) · ru цо́кот (The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground) · pl tętent (The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground) · cs klapot (The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground)
Perhaps from German or Dutch kloppen (“to hit, knock”), from Middle Dutch cloppen (“to make a clopping sound”), of onomatopoeic origin. See also clap.
Meanings
To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569: