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▪ I. clicker1|ˈklɪkə(r)|
[f. click v.1 + -er.]
1. One who or that which clicks; a horse that clicks in trotting.
.. Old Lincolnsh. Song, ‘Howden Fair’ in N. & Q. Ser. vii. V. 345 Some for panting scarce could draw, And there were clickers too, I knaw.
2. Techn. One who rules with a machine-pen, the wheel of which clicks. Cf. click v.1 3.
1869Eng. Mech. 5 Nov. 166/1 The clickers are those who rule the tartan pattern on [tartan woodwork.]
3. Comb. clicker-hole, the valve-hole of bellows.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 69 The clicker-hole of the..pair of bellows.
▸ colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.). A remote control device, esp. for a television.
1974World (Elmwood Park, Illinois) (Electronic text) 27 Jan. It won't be quite so easy to move your television set around the house and your remote control clicker may not work. 1979Times 1 Dec. 22 (caption) Remote control car responds to hand-held clicker, {pstlg}8.95. 2002C. von Ziegesar Gossip Girl 133 Chuck sank down onto the couch beside her, grabbed the clicker, and changed the channel.
▪ II. ˈclicker2
[Sense 1 is app. the original, and has been variously referred to click v.1 and v.2]
1. slang. A shop-keeper's tout. (Originally a shoemaker's: cf. next sense.)
c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Clicker, the Shoe-maker's Journeyman or Servant, that cuts out all the work, and stands at or walks before the door, and saies ‘What d' ye lack, sir? What d' ye buy, madam’? 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 242 Let Clickers bark on the whole Day. 1721–1800Bailey, Clicker, a Shoemaker or Salesman who at a Shop invites Customers. 1755–78Johnson, Clicker, a low word for the servant of a salesman who stands at the door to invite customers. 1873Slang Dict., Clicker, a female touter at a bonnet shop.
2. A foreman shoemaker who cuts out the leather for boots and shoes, and gives it out to the workmen. Also, a workman who cuts out (parts of) the uppers of boots and shoes.
1690[see sense 1]. 1808Ann. Reg. Chron. 122 A young man..who was what is termed a clicker, or foreman to a boot and shoemaker. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 403 One man..does nought but cut and give out work—he is the ‘cliquer’. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §608 Clicker (rubber), cuts out rubber uppers for goloshes, and canvas uppers for rubber boots or shoes. 1960Guardian 1 Mar. 7/5 A clicker (a maker of the uppers for women's shoes). 1968Times 6 Dec. 10/6 The ‘clickers’ who, after the various parts are sewn together, work the upper around the last.
3. Printing. The foreman of a companionship of compositors who distributes the ‘copy’ among the others, and attends to the paging, placing of head-lines, and the like; he also keeps an account of what each sets up, and makes up the bill. (App. introduced between 1770 and 1808.)
1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. 466 The clicker (the person so appointed) applies to the overseer for the copy. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 640 The MS...is then handed to a clicker or foreman of a companionship, or certain number of compositors. 1885Scotsman 26 Aug. 3/6 Compositor—First-class clicker, smart at upmaking.
Hence ˈclickership (sense 3).
1882Standard 1 Dec. 8/4 Overseership or Clickership required by good practical Printer. |