n. [ Cf. Clicket. ] (Mil.) A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties.
v. t.
[ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit. ] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress. J. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766). [ 1913 Webster ]
Scratched ticket,
Split ticket,
Straight ticket,
Ticket day (Com.),
Ticket of leave,
Ticket porter,
n. A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
[ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit. ] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress. J. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766). [ 1913 Webster ]
Scratched ticket,
Split ticket,
Straight ticket,
Ticket day (Com.),
Ticket of leave,
Ticket porter,
n. A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers. [ 1913 Webster ]