[A dialectal form of TICKING sb., the ending app. sometimes associated with -EN 4, as in hempen, woollen, etc.] = TICKING sb., TICK sb.2 Also attrib.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3739/4. Striped Ticken Breeches.
1707. E. Chamberlayne, Pres. St. Eng., I. iii. (ed. 22), 20. The chief Manufactures are Woollen Cloatbs, Cottons, and Ticken.
1769. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., I. 93. Part of a Street of Booths was taken up with Upholsters Ware; such as Tickens, Sackens,… Rugs, Quilts, &c.
1843. Borrow, Bible in Spain, xi. 78. A long loose tunic or slop, seemingly of coarse ticken.
