ticking

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   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.

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   A sound of something that ticks. (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!

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   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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   También una forma de tickpresent participle and gerund of tick

   a ticking time bomb

sustantivo

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   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.

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tickings