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To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

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  1. v. i. To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
  2. v. t. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  3. n. The call of a hen to her chickens.
  4. n. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
  5. n. the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)
  6. v. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
  7. To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray. 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. Shak. 1. The call of a hen to her chickens. 2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
  8. To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray.
  9. n:20/v:80 n. the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) v. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens