[partly a variant of CLEEK; partly the stem of CLICK v.2 used as sb. and in comb.]
1. = CLEEK, hook.
2. (See quot.)
1876. Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Click, a familiar term amongst miners for money earned or gained in addition to regular wages.
1883. Huddersf. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Clicks, the hooks used for moving packs of wool.
3. The act of clicking; a jerk with a cleek or hook.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 6 Oct., 4/2. When a fish is seen the hooks are simply thrown beyond it…; a sharp ‘click’ usually sends them into the soft under parts of the fish.
4. A manœuvre in wrestling, whereby the adversary’s foot is sharply knocked off the ground.
[Cf. 1611. Cotgr., Clinquet, as Cliquet; also, a certaine tricke in wrestling.]
1872. Daily News, 21 May, 2/4. Graham is said to be one of the best men in England for the click…. Putting on the click, however … he brought Mein down by a superb buttock.
1883. Standard, 24 March, 3/7. The veteran wrestler fell in the first round to the prowess of the young champion, Carradyce, who administered the inside click.
5. Comb. click-hook, a large hook fixed in a pole or fastened to a rope, for catching or landing fish; a cleek.
1822. Bewick, Mem., 36. What he could catch with his ‘click-hook,’ in the river, he deemed his own.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 13. Eskimo Click-hook for taking fish.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 6 Oct., 4/2. Poaching with click-hooks.
