These are the meanings of the letters PILLICOCK when you unscramble them.
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Click (n.)
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
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Click (n.)
A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.
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Click (n.)
A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
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Click (n.)
The latch of a door.
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Click (v. i.)
To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
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Click (v. t.)
To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
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Click (v. t.)
To move with the sound of a click.
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Click (v. t.)
To snatch.
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Clock (n.)
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
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Clock (n.)
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
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Clock (n.)
A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
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Clock (n.)
A watch, esp. one that strikes.
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Clock (n.)
The striking of a clock.
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Clock (v. t.)
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
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Clock (v. t. & i.)
To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
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Colic (a.)
Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
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Colic (a.)
Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
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Colic (n.)
A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.