clack v.
1. to fool by deceptive speech.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Account 8 Nov. 🌐 W – in his Livery, was often employ’d to clack the Carriers. |
2. to chatter; to abuse.
 | implied in clack the doctor | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Farmer 26: Dear Madam, how you clack away / [...] / Tuck up your Duds, and pack away. | |
| ‘The humours of Dunmow’ in Vocal Mag. 1 Apr. 124: Does any many in his enses wish to part with a good goose because shoo clacks a bit? | |
| Yorks. Gaz. 6 Sept. 4/5: Mrs Husband will leave off clacking to Mrs Clack and Mr Clack will never again box the ears of Mrs Husband, clack as she may. | |
| Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 25: (For since those who can’t fight always clack us). | |
| Satirist (London) 4 Dec. 277/2: Parson Irving [...] has taken to a new trade. The unknown tongue has brought no grist to the mill—it goes ‘clack, clack,’ with nothing to grind. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Sydney) 15 July 1/6: Roarings loud and pipings weak, / Rise from every clacking clique. | |
| [perf. Wilkie Bard] ‘The Barman’ 🎵 Oh my! talk about a chatter box / You ought to ’ear the old boy clack. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) to impersonate a doctor in order to rob a surgeon.
| Accounts 8 Nov. 🌐 Fluellin dress’d up W– like a Countryman, in a riding Coat, girt round him with a broad sacking Belt, buckled with four Buckles, intencing to * clack the Doctor* [...] *Clacking the Doctor, is when one of the Gang personates a Physician, and under Pretence of coming with a Patient to the Surgeon for Advice, they watch their Opportunity to rob him. |