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Meanings of stridulate in English

Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures.

Synonyms
Examples for "clitter"
Examples for "clitter"
1
A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
The War in the Air
2
I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of cocker claws.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
3
The big curved wings on either side flapped disconcertingly, flapped again' click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock!
The War in the Air
4
Click, clock, clitter-clock, he was rising!
The War in the Air
5
The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus came soaring through the air.
The War in the Air
Usage of stridulate in English
1
The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
2
Do co-mimics also stridulate or squeak with the same wave-form?
The Guardian
3
The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
4
The only known mammal to stridulate is the streaked tenrec, a spiky hedgehog-like critter from Madagascar that rubs its quills together.
Wired
5
The Krinpit was staggering closer to them, moaning and stridulating.
Jem
6
He does not sing, he does not cry-he stridulates.
By-Ways of Bombay
7
The males are stridulating by themselves, here and there, teasing the passing fair with their antennae.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
Frequent collocations
Stridulate through the time