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clacker
/ 藞办濒忙办蓹 /
noun
- an object that makes a clacking sound
- dialect.the mouth
Example Sentences
An online flier for an October party in this Belgian beach town cursed the coronavirus and invited people to dance and drink again, to 鈥済et your clacker back from the attic鈥 and kick off Carnival season.
For example, the MAX crew-alerting system activates a 鈥渃lacker鈥 making a very loud clicking sound to warn pilots when the jet is flying too fast.
And Ewbank pointedly noted that on the Ethiopian MAX crash flight, the clacker 鈥渨as sounding continuously during the last minutes of flight.鈥
On Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 that crashed in March 2019, killing 157 people, the stick shaker vibrated throughout the six-minute flight, indicating the plane was going too slow and close to a stall, while simultaneously a loud clacker was sounding in the cockpit 鈥 warning the pilots they were going too fast.
Besides the stick shaker they heard repeated loud 鈥淒ON鈥橳 SINK鈥 warnings that the jet was too close to the ground; a 鈥渃lacker鈥 making a very loud clicking sound to signal the jet was going too fast; and multiple warning lights telling the crew the speed, altitude and other readings on their instruments were unreliable.
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