Cackle

1. n. Idle talk; silly prattle.
2. v. i. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
3. v. i. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
4. v. i. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
5. n. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.