Click
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. In seamens language, a small piece of iron falling into a
notched wheel attached to the winches in cutters, etc.
Click
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Literally, to strike; hence,
2. To make a small sharp noise, or rather a succession of small sharp sounds, as by a gentle striking.
Click
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the
cocking of a
pistol.
2. A kind of
articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden
withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp,
clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called
cerebral,
palatal,
dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in
urging a horse forward.
3. A
detent,
pawl, or
ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a
ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
Click
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to
tick.
Click
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. To move with the sound of a click.
2. To cause to make a
clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
An
artificer whose occupation is to make clocks.
Clicker
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
The servant of a
salesman, who stands at the door to
invite customers; a law ward and not used in the United States.
Clicker
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Clicking
[Participle present tense]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Making small sharp noises.
