▪ I. clacker, n.
(ˈklækə(r))
[f. clack v. + -er1.]
That which clacks; the clack or clapper of a mill; a clack to frighten birds away, etc.
| 1636 Sir H. Blount Voy. Levant (1650) 18 (T.) This they find by the noise of those boat-mills; their clackers beat much slower at those times than else. 1869 Blackmore Lorna D. II. 92 (Hoppe) His tongue was worse than the clacker of a charity-school bell. Mod. dial. Rime, I pick up my clackers And knock you down back'ards Shoo 'ay a bird! 1880 M. A. Courtney West Cornw. Gloss., Clacker, a rattle to frighten away birds; the tongue, a valve of a pump. |
▪ II. clacker, v. dial. and U.S.
(ˈklækə(r))
[Cf. clack v.1]
intr. and trans. = clack v.1
| 1851 S. Judd Margaret (ed. 2) iii. 345 Mounting a rock she harangued the people, or, rather, clackered her own merit. 1896 G. Chanter Witch of Withyford ii, She heard them all come clackering into the yard. |