LekhoriLekhoriA 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.
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!
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.
present participle and gerund of tick
a ticking time bomb
tick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”).
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