0 a short sharp noise made by two hard objects being hit together: --
1 If two hard objects clack, they make a short sharp noise because they hit together: --
A typewriter was clacking in the next room.
2 a short sound made when two hard objects hit --
Clack has distinguished himself as an activist for his profession.
The preheated feedwater is fed at full boiler pressure into the main boiler via clack valves.
Horses, particularly foals, sometimes indicate appeasement of a more aggressive herd member by extending their necks and clacking their teeth.
One does not need much imagination to realise the sort of din that 24 typewriters would create when clacking away in the same corridor.
Terrible things were conjured up before our eyes—factories ruined, houses falling into disorder, combine harvesters no longer able to "clack" away.
Clack's book is divided into five parts.
Clack replies, ' (here's the tragedy) that view was habitually understood in terms of ' ' fideism ' ' ' (12).
Clack, too, wants to resist attempts at some more foundational understanding, but not because the idea is confused, but because it is out of reach.
