tock
nounverbattested in dialogue
- Canada//tɑk//
A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
noun
- 1
A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
When Cyrus left her there by herself she stood quite still and listened to the sounds, a variety of ticks and tocks, faint beats and flutters.
verb
- 1
To produce such a sound.
The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.
Forms
- plural
- tocks
- past tense
- tocked
- past participle
- tocked
- present participle
- tocking
- third person singular
- tocks
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