cluck

"I came across him once," he continued, "when he was playing down on the main road to Skaug; there he sat in the middle of the road with a lot of hens around him, I counted seven, and there were more round about in the wood, for I heard them clucking and calling behind every bush."

My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.

When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,

Has clucked thee to the wars and safely home.