Word Meanings - CLICKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The knocker of a door. 2. A latch key. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to CLICKET)

• LATCHET
  The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
• LATCHING
  A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket.
• KNOCKER
  One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance. Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. Pope.
• LATCH
  To smear; to anoint. Shak.
• LATCHSTRING
  A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome.
• LATCHKEY
  A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.
• UNLATCH
  To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• SLATCH
  The period of a transitory breeze. An interval of fair weather. The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.
• DRAWLATCH
  A housebreaker or thief. Old Play .
• CLATCH
  Eng.) 1. A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud. 2. Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.
• DEADLATCH
  A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.
• POTLATCH
  1. Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and