Lexicographical Neighbors of Clickets
Literary usage of Clickets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"42) A clap-dish ; anything that makes a rattling noise. Cotgrave. " A boy's
clickets, flat bones wherewith a pretty rattling noise is made," ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"A boy's clickets, flat bones wherewith a pretty rattling noise is made," Miege.
(3) A latch-key. (A.-N.) According to Salop. Antiq. p. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"a chattering woman,' one who clickets. ' Her that will clicket" (Tusser, p. 251).
' A tatling huswife, whose clicket is ever wagging ' (Cotgrave) ; v. ..."
4. Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things. Selected from Notes and Queries by Robert Conger Pell (1857)
"... clickets; yet better resounding, and far more harmonious.—Rabelais, book ii.
c. 19. COLLEGE SALTING. There formerly prevailed an odd custom at Oxford ..."
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