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Clicket

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

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

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

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clicket

Etymology 1 vb. (context intransitive of a fox or foxes English) To be in oestrus; to copulate. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context UK dialect English) The knocker of a door. 2 (context UK dialect English) A latchkey.

Usage examples of "clicket".

I caught the early train from Paddington to Exeter, clicketing along the rails from reflected fame to anonymity.

I had learned the basics, but knitting for me was still a pitched battle with knotted thread and slippery needles, not the soothing, dreamy exercise that Jamie and Ian made of it, needles clicketing away in their big hands by the fire, comforting as the sound of crickets on the hearth.