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Definition of Clicket
1. n. The knocker of a door.
Definition of Clicket
1. Verb. (intransitive of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clicket
1. to make a clicking sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clicket
Literary usage of Clicket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1879)
"The Chairman read the next paper, entitled : ON THE BEGGAR'S clicket. ...
the combination being denominated a clicket, clap, or clack-dish, which might with ..."
2. School Reading by Grades: First[-eighth] Year by James Baldwin (1897)
"clicket-clicket- clicket-clicket-clicket! sings the row of sharp knives, nicknamed
the 5 sickle, as it flies back and forth faster than your eye can follow ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"Click,—clicket. Click represents a thinner sound than clack, as a dick with the
tongue, the dick of a latch or a trigger. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"clicket. Voluble. *Clift. A cliff [EST]. dim. A sort of imp which inhabits the
chimneys of nurseries, and is sometimes called down to take away naughty ..."
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