Moving hinged brackets close to me made beastly sound (7)
I believe the answer is:
neighed
'made beastly sound' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'moving hinged brackets close to me' is the wordplay.
'moving' is an anagram indicator (letters are moved around).
'brackets' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'close to' suggests the final letters (the close of something is the end).
The final letter of 'me' is 'e'.
'hinged' anagrammed gives 'neighd'.
'neighd' enclosing 'e' is 'NEIGHED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for neighed that I've seen before include "sounded "horsey"" , "how Arab, for example, sounded" , "Cried" , "Whinnied" , "Heeding (anag)" .)