clacker
Britishnoun
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an object that makes a clacking sound
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dialect the mouth
Example Sentences
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And Ewbank pointedly noted that on the Ethiopian MAX crash flight, the clacker “was sounding continuously during the last minutes of flight.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2020
The excessive speed was amply clear in the cockpit, where an overspeed clacker was sounding off, but neither pilot thought to reduce the thrust and slow.
From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2019
At the time when both pilots were unable to move the wheel, they were traveling at over 340 knots, the maximum operating speed of the airplane and clacker alarms were sounding.
From Reuters • Apr. 4, 2019
He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
His clacker he had by this time thrown away from him, as being a mean and sordid instrument, offensive both to the birds and to himself as their friend.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
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