clack box

English

Noun

clack box (plural clack boxes)

  1. The box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
    • 1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Clack-Boxes”, in Railway Magazine, page 129:
      The connecting pipe between a locomotive injector and the boiler, through which the water is forced into the boiler against the steam pressure within, is provided with a "clack-valve," which allows the water to pass in the inward direction only and not the outward; this is housed in a "clack-box". No question of "advantages or disadvantages" attaches to the use of a clack-box; it is a necessary part of locomotive equipment.
  2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's tongue or mouth.
  3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A garrulous person; a chatterbox.

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