clicket

verb, noun — 3 senses

clicket

verb

1

Of a fox or foxes To be in oestrus; to copulate.

The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.
A Fox goeth to Clickitting.1677, Cox, Nicholas, The Gentleman's Recreation […] :

1 more example

Soon after the New Year vixens start miauling, and the curious proceeding known as clicketting soon follows.1951, Douglas Francis St. Leger-Gordon, The way of a fox.:

clicket

noun

Etymology From Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.

1

UK, Dialectal The knocker of a door.

2

UK, Dialectal A latchkey.

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