Also 7 clakker. [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 (1637), 10 (T.). This they finde by the noyse of those Boat-milles…: their clakkers beate much slower, at those times then else.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., II. 92 (Hoppe). His tongue was worse than the clacker of a charity-school bell.
Mod. dial. Rhyme. I pick up my clackers And knock you down back’ards Shoo ’ay a bird!
1880. Miss Courtney, West Cornw. Gloss., Clacker, a rattle to frighten away birds; the tongue, a valve of a pump.
