[Imitative.]
1. trans. To cause to click or sound sharply.
1828. Ann. Reg., Chron., 25/1. They snicked their guns, but I saw no flash.
1900. Crockett, Black Douglas, 9. He stood … drawing it an inch from its sheath and snicking it back again.
2. intr. To make a sharp, clicking noise. Hence Snicking vbl. sb.
1892. Kipling, Barrack Room Ball., 76. Ye may hear a breech-bolt snick where never a man is seen.
1893. Raymond, Gent. Upcott, xiv. The snicking of the flint and steel sounded hard and vicious.
