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Ticking

//ˈtɪkɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.

    "Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles."

  2. 2
    A sound of something ticking. (For example, the second hand on a clock face.)

    "Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks — the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!"

  3. 3
    A marking that occurs on some horses, involving white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano, sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.
  4. 4
    a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers wordnet
  5. 5
    An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
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  1. 6
    a metallic tapping sound wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tick form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "a ticking time bomb"

Etymology

Etymology 1

tick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”).

Etymology 2

tick (“tick mark”) + -ing (“having the property”).

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