sb. Also clop. [Echoic: cf. CLIP-CLOP, and Du. klop, G. klopf. In quot. 1893 prob. suggested by the Du. word.] The sound of the impact of something solid on a hard surface: see quots. Also reduplicated klop-klop.
1841. T. H. Sealy, Porcelain Tower, Marr. in Mask, 206. A rustle of pig-tails and a klop-klop of [Chinese] ladies’ feet.
1854. W. Collins, Hide & Seek, i. He heard the heavy clop-clop of thickly-booted feet.
1891. A. W. Tuer, in Pall Mall Gaz., 10 Jan., 2/3. A hard road beats musically to the klop-klop of galloping horse or march of men.
1893. C. Stein, in Blackw. Mag., Sept., 444/2. The crack was heard, again followed by the fatal ‘klop’ [of a beast falling].
So Klop v., intr. to produce a somewhat hollow sound by striking a hard surface.
1841. T. H. Sealy, Porcelain Tower, Hyson & Bohea, 99. The sad Bohea, who stay’d awake to weep, Rose from her couch, and lest her shoes should klop, ‘Padded the hoof,’ and sought her father’s shop.
