Sc. [prob.:ON. klaka, to chatter, twitter, and thus identical with certain senses of CLACK v.] intr. To cry as geese or other fowls; to chatter, talk so as to bore people.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. Prol. 109. The wyld geis claking eik by nychtis tyde.
1838. Bethune, Sc. Fireside Stor. (1843), 77. That daidlin claikin creature of a lawyer.