clacket

English

Verb

clacket (third-person singular simple present clackets, present participle clacketing, simple past and past participle clacketed)

1. (intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
   • 1998, Helen Garner, My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, page 116:

     Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.

   • 2015 July 10, “Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.

2. (intransitive, UK, regional) To chatter or prattle.
   • 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:

     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.