clachan (klachan)

[Gael., to be put in the hopper. Johnson.-3. A valve of a pump.-4. A ball-valve connected with the boiler of a locomotive. See ball - valve and clack - box, 2.-5. A kind of small windmill with a clapper, set on the top of a pole to frighten away birds. Also called clack -mill, and formerly clacket.-6. Continual talk; prattle; go ip; tattle. A woman's clack , if I have skill, Sounds somewhat like a throwster's mill. Swift . The clack of tongues, and confusion of voices in this new a embly, was so very great, that the godde was forced to command silence several times. Add is on, Vision of Justice. Weakne runs never to this, but always to unthinking clack and rattle. Bushnell, Sermons on Living Subjects, p. 18. clack-box (klak'boks), n. 1. In mach., the box in which a clack-valve works. 2. In a locomotive, a box fitted to the boiler in which a ball-valve is placed to close the orifice of the feed-pipe, and prevent steam or hot water from reaching the pumps. The ball of the clack is raised from its seat by the stroke of the pump-plunger forcing water against it; the water then pa es into the boiler, but is prevented from returning by the instant fall of the 3. The tongue. [Prov. Eng.] The clachan yill [ale] had made me canty. ball. Burns , Death and Doctor Hornbook. Scott , Rob Roy, xxviii. clack (klak), v . [=Sc. clake , claik , clacken , clakken , claken (not found in AS., but see below, and cf. clatter and crack ) = MD. klacken , clack, crack, whack, shake, D. klakken , clack, crack (> OF. clacquer , claquer , clack, clap, clatter, F. claquer , clap in applause: see claque ), = MLG. klaken , cluck (as a hen), = Icel. klaka , twitter, chatter (as a bird), wrangle, dispute, = Norw. klakka , strike, knock; cf. MLG. klacken , LG. clack-dish (klak'dish), n. A beggar's dish or receptacle for money, fitted with a lid so arranged as to produce when agitated a clatter upon the edge of the ve el. Its use was abandoned in the seventeenth century, and it was succeeded by the alms-pot. Also called clap dish. His use was, to put a ducat in her clack - dish. Shak ., M. for M., iii. 2. Can you think I get my living by a bell and a clackdish? Middle ton, Family of Love, iv. 2. IMG:content-0504.png:[blocks in formation] clacker (klak'ėr), n. 1. One who or that which clacks; the clack of a mill; the clapper. This they find by the noise of those boat mills; their clackers beat much slower. Sir H. Blount , Voyage to the Levant, p. 18. See clack , 2. A rattle used to frighten birds. п., 5.