CLICKET

DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS
3. a catch, trigger, bolt that fastens anything by falling or springing into position (obsolete or dialect)
4. a contrivance for making a clicking sound; a clapper or rattle carried by beggars in France, like the 'clap-dish' in England; bones rattled as accompaniment to music; anything that makes a rattling noise (obsolete or dialect)
5. a chattering tongue
6. a valve or lid that shuts with a click; the valve of a pump
7. supposed by some to be a she-fox
8. a wooden salt-box with a hinged lid, hung against the wall in old-fashioned kitchens (dialect)
9. a small wedge (dialect)
10. a thin board, having four or five small arched apertures, placed before the mouth of a hive in the winter months to protect the bees from mice or other vermin (dialect)
VERBS
1. to latch or lock; to fasten the wooden latch of a door by inserting a peg above it, thus preventing it from being raised 
2. to chatter
3. of the fox or hare: to be in heat, to copulate
4. to protect hives by means of a 'clicket' (see noun 10) (dialect)

also CLEKET, CLEKYT, CLICKETTE, CLIKET, CLIKETT, CLIQUET, 
CLYCKED, CLYCKET, CLYKET, CLYKETT, KLEKET, KLIKET

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ETYMOLOGY
Middle English cliket from Old French cliquet, which appears to have had most of the English senses; 

EXAMPLE
(for verb 2)
From: A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandry
By Thomas Tusser, 1570
A Hundreth Good Pointes of Huswiferye