Middle English Dictionary Entry
cliket n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | cliket n.(1) Also cleket. |
| Etymology | OF cliquet latch. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The latch of a door or gate; a kind of latch which can be locked with a key, a locking latch; ~ lok, a latch lock; ~ keie, a latch key; (b) a latch key; (c) ?a strong box with a locking latch.
Associated quotations
a
- (1331-2) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103904 gloss : In uno cliket ad hostium.
- (1342) Sacrist R.Ely 2118 : j clikecloc [?read: cliketloc] cum iij clau.
- (1348) *Acc.Exch.K.R.471/1.m.2 [OD col.] : Pro j Cleket.
- (1354) in Hope Windsor C.1.167 : In j cliketlok cum vj clavibus emptis pro hostio.
- (1385) in Rec.B.Nottingham 1234 : Pro factura unius klyketkey.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)6.94 : He haþ þe keye of þe cliket.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)858 : A clyket hit [the wicket] cleȝt clos hym byhynde.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.154/444 : For þe lok, Cleket, and boltes of þe same dore.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)668/14 : Hec sericula: clykyt.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)82 : Clykett: Clitorium.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)61 : Love berith the keye and also the cliket, As trewe porteer.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)778/23 : Hec serula: a clyket.
b
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5257 : Vna cerura cum quatuor kliketes.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2046 : He wol no wight suffre bere the keye Saue he hym self for of the smal wyket He bar alwey of siluer a clyket.
- (1439) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 4554 : That noo straunge pepille may entre with certeyn cleketts.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)82 : Clykett: Clavicula.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)25a : Cleket: Clauis.
c
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)573/31 : Clitella: a cliket, or a forsere.
- 1468 Medulla (StJ-C C.22)66 fn. : Clitella: a clyket.