[a. An error in Phillips ed. 1696 (and some later dicts.) for CLINK in Spenser. b. A misprint in Bailey (Halliwell, etc.) for CLINKER.
1696. Phillips, Clinket, old word, a Key-hole; whose Diminutive is Clicket a Key; used by old Chaucer.
1721–. Bailey, Clinket, a crafty Fellow.
1847–78. in Halliwell.]
