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Webster 1913 Edition

Cluck

Cluck

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Clucked
;
p pr. & vb. n.
Clucking
.]
[AS.
cloccian
; cf. D.
klokken
, G.
glucken
,
glucksen
, LG.
klukken
, Dan.
klukke
; all prob. of imitative origin.]
To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Ray.

Cluck

,
Verb.
T.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has
clucked
three to the wars.
Shakespeare

Cluck

,
Noun.
1.
The call of a hen to her chickens.
2.
A click. See 3d
Click
, 2.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cluck

CLUCK

,
Verb.
I.
To make the noise, or utter the voice of the domestic hen, when sitting on eggs for hatching, and when conducting her chickens. This voice, with the change of the vowel, is precisely our word clack and clock, and is probably an onomatopy. [See Clack and Clock.]

CLUCK

,
Verb.
T.
To call chickens by a particular sound.

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