Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of clerk.
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Examples
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“Clk! clk! clk!” cried Bianchon, making the sound with his tongue against the roof of his mouth, like a driver urging on a horse.
Father Goriot 2003
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Just after sun-up next morning as Birnier was seated at the door of his tent reading his _Melancholy_ and drinking his coffee, a startled “clk” caused him to glance round.
Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle
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Ann de Lisle Fennell; A.B. 1854; A.M. 1856; D.D. 1889, Judson; journalist; clk. and master in equity, Pitt co., 1858-59; pres.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924
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City bank, New York, July-Nov. 1920; lawyer 1922 -; city clk. and treas.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924
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Passing one of them, we half roused the feathered family within and heard muffled peepings and a smothered _clk-clk_.
More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917
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We travelled slowly thru the beautiful verdant and widely ex-tended prairie untill about 2 clk P.M. and encamped at a small grove of timber near a spring. 29th We took up our march and travelled across a large and beautifully undulating prairie intersected by small streams skirted with timber intermingled with shrubbery untill the 3rd of May when we arrived at the Caw or
Journal of a Trapper 1914
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I began to scrawl at 5 mins. from 9 of ye clk. and have in writing consmd.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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Person, J E, clk with Bass & Scott, r Red Cross, bet 3d and 4th.
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Knight, A W, clk with Williams and Murchison, r 3d, bet Chesnut and Mulberry.
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Everett, John A, clk with Smith & Strauss, r Mulberry, bet 7th and 8th.
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