Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures;
- Example: "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate"[syn: stridulate, clitter]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
clitter \clitter\ v. i.
to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special
bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or
grasshoppers.
Syn: stridulate.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
clitter
v 1: make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special
bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or
grasshoppers stridulate" [syn: stridulate, clitter]