[f. CLICK v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CLICK: a. gen.
1781. Cowper, Hope, 104. Conversation … Grows drowsy, as the clicking of a clock.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., vii. (1876), 138. It utters a low note, like the clicking together of two small stones.
1858. Longf., M. Standish, V. 3. Clanging and clicking of arms, and the order imperative, ‘Forward!’
b. of a horse.
1831. Youatt, Horse, xix. (1847), 393. A singular species of over-reaching, termed Forging or Clicking.
