tickings

Duddery at least; also a part of a street of booths were taken up with upholsterer's ware, such as tickings, sackings, kidderminster stuffs, blankets, rugs, quilts, etc.

Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Daniel Defoe 1696

I have never had a maternal instinct, or heard the incessant tickings of any mythical biological clock, or been smitten with babies, or enjoyed being around children.

Tick Tock that Biological Clock - Feministing 2009

But Pip had had some angry tickings-off from his father and two or three canings, and he and Bets were always afraid of Mr. Goon coming to complain.

Separate Douglas Light 2010

To find the rest of the vocabulary she needed, she spent a lot of time experimenting with the instruments, exploring and exploiting the different sounds they could make and eventually the music of :blurt emerged, which she describes as "a noisy thicket of scratches and muffled shrieks, knocks and dim sinister tickings".

Huddersfield festival and the future of contemporary classical music Christopher Fox 2010

And I know they have made sheets out of it and they have used it for tickings to fill pillows. 67

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

There have been other lofty tickings-off: How could the Irish be so ungrateful, given what Europe had done for them?

Irish Miracle 2008

Soon we settled into the rhythms of cohabitation, and the questions I had at first dissolved into the tickings of daily life.

The Mother Garden Robin Romm 2007

Soon we settled into the rhythms of cohabitation, and the questions I had at first dissolved into the tickings of daily life.

The Mother Garden Robin Romm 2007

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound — strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea – sand or the winter snow.

Bleak House 2007

She liked the company of this venerable article in her lonely life: its tickings and whizzings were a sort of conversation.

A Changed Man 2006