CLICKET

Etymology 1

Verb

clicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (US) clicketing or (UK) clicketting, simple past and past participle (US) clicketed or (UK) clicketted)

(intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.

Etymology 2

Noun

clicket (plural clickets)

(UK, dialect) The knocker of a door.

(UK, dialect) A latchkey.

He carried always the small silver clicket
With which, as pleased him, he'd unlock the gate.

Source: Wiktionary


Click"et, n. Etym: [OF. cliquet the latch of a door. See 5th Click.]

1. The knocker of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

2. A latch key. [Eng.] Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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