clicket (kliket)

[Also formerly cliquet; Specifically-2. An instrument making a clapping noise, used by beggars to attract attention. See clack -dish.-3. pl. Flat rattling bones for boys to play with. Coles, 1717.-4. A latchkey. B. Jonson.-5. The latch or lock of a door. He hath the keye of the cliket thaug the kyng slepe. Piers Plowman (A), vi. 94. [Obsolete or local in all senses.] clickett, v. t. [ME. cliketen ; clicket , n.] Το lock with a clicket. The dore closed, Kayed and cliketed to kepe the with-outen. Piers Plowman (B), v. 623. click-pulley (klik'puli), n. In mach ., a sheave having teeth in its rim engaged by a click or ratchet.