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third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (UK) clicketting or (US) clicketing, simple past and past participle (UK) clicketted or (US) clicketed
(intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate. quotations examples
A Fox goeth to Clickitting.
1677, Cox, Nicholas, The Gentleman's Recreation […]
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.
plural clickets
(UK, dialect) The knocker of a door. examples
(UK, dialect) A latchkey. examples