Obs. [ad. F. claquet, f. claquer, to clack; cf. Cotgr. claquet de moulin, the clapper, or clacke, of a mill-hopper.]
1. = prec.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. (1594), 118. Wee may … compare their tongue to the clacket of a mill.
1611. Cotgr., Clac … (most properly) the clacket that frights away birds from fruit-trees, &c.
2. Clacking, vigorous and incessant chatter.
1812. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), I. vi. 189. In the midst of a universal clacket of female tongues.
