clacket

To move with a clackety sound.

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. 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

clackets clacketing clacketed