Clack

whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack

We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.

[He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble.

There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings

The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.

Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.

We drive on between meadows of mown grass, through a pergola of vines, and so to an orchard of peaches, apples, and pears and a hen colony housed in neat modern cottages, the chickens clacking and scratching away […]