"clicket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: clickets [plural]
Etymology: From Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|cliquet||the latch of a door}} Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} clicket (plural clickets)
  1. (UK, dialect) The knocker of a door. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-clicket-en-noun-IIX4NcSB Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 48 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 50 6
  2. (UK, dialect) A latchkey. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-clicket-en-noun-mICbIRWQ Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 48 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 50 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 55 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: clickets [present, singular, third-person], clicketting [UK, participle, present], clicketing [US, participle, present], clicketted [UK, participle, past], clicketted [UK, past], clicketed [US, participle, past], clicketed [US, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++|past2=clicketed|past2_qual=US|past_qual=UK|pres_ptc2=clicketing|pres_ptc2_qual=US|pres_ptc_qual=UK}} clicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (UK) clicketting or (US) clicketing, simple past and past participle (UK) clicketted or (US) clicketed)
  1. (intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-clicket-en-verb-wdGSl4ZA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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