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▪ I. clicking, vbl. n.|ˈklɪkɪŋ|
[f. click v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. click: a. gen.
1781Cowper Hope 104 Conversation..Grows drowsy, as the clicking of a clock. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. vii. (1879) 138 A low note, like the clicking together of two small stones. 1858Longfellow M. Standish v. 3 Clanging and clicking of arms, and the order imperative, ‘Forward!’
b. of a horse.
1831Youatt Horse xix. (1847) 393 A singular species of over-reaching, termed Forging or Clicking.
c. The process of cutting out the leather for boots and shoes. (Cf. clicker2 2.)
1909J. A. Hobson Industr. System xviii. 281 The introduction of clicking machinery into the shoe trade has been followed by a net reduction of employment. 1916Yorkshire Post 15 Feb. 5/5 Women have not yet been put to clicking.
d. Printing. (See quot. and cf. clicker2 3.)
1860Ruse & Straker Printing 121 Clicking. This is a term applied to the mode pursued in London of getting out work by the formation of a companionship, or selected number of men, who are appointed to go on with a certain work or works.
▪ II. clicking, ppl. a.|ˈklɪkɪŋ|
That clicks.
a1682Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vii. (1686) 78 The little clicking sound of the Dead-Watch. 1868Whitman Sel. Poems 151 Yon Hottentot with clicking palate. 1870Morris Ea. Par. iv. 111 The clicking loom's sharp noise. |