click

Definitions

1. 1.To more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray.
2. 2.To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson.
3. 3.A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
4. 4.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.
5. 5.To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
6. 6.A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
7. 7.The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray called?
• What is to cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson called?
• What is a slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol called?
• What is a detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel called?