cleckingn.

Forms: Also 1800s clackin.

Etymology: < cleck v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈclecking.

1. The action of cleck v.; hatching; (transferred in quot. 1815).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery

teamOE

childinga1275

birtha1325

childc1330

deliverancea1375

childbearinga1400

kindlinga1400

birth-bearingc1426

forthbringing1429

childbirth?a1450

parturitya1450

bearinga1500

delivery1548

parture1588

infantment1597

puerpery1602

exclusion1646

parturition1646

venter1657

outbirth1691

clecking1815

parturience1822

birthing1928

natural childbirth1933

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 12 Clecking time's aye canty time.

2. A hatching, a brood (of chickens, etc.).

ΚΠ

1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 335 Like some bewilder'd chicken, Scar'd frae its minnie and the cleckin By hoodie-craw.

1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxxii. 283 The bairns of the last clecking are to be provided for by their mother's uncle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	clecking
释义	cleckingn. Forms: Also 1800s clackin. Etymology: < cleck v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈclecking. 1. The action of cleck v.; hatching; (transferred in quot. 1815). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery teamOE childinga1275 birtha1325 childc1330 deliverancea1375 childbearinga1400 kindlinga1400 birth-bearingc1426 forthbringing1429 childbirth?a1450 parturitya1450 bearinga1500 delivery1548 parture1588 infantment1597 puerpery1602 exclusion1646 parturition1646 venter1657 outbirth1691 clecking1815 parturience1822 birthing1928 natural childbirth1933 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 12 Clecking time's aye canty time. 2. A hatching, a brood (of chickens, etc.). ΚΠ 1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 335 Like some bewilder'd chicken, Scar'd frae its minnie and the cleckin By hoodie-craw. 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxxii. 283 The bairns of the last clecking are to be provided for by their mother's uncle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1787
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