blick

Meanings

1. To shine, gleam.
2. To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.

1. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

1. Of gold or silver, to exhibit blick.

1. A sawed-off length of something.

1. A pistol.

1. To shoot up (fire bullets at).

Etymology

Perhaps onomatopoeic; perhaps an error for, or a nonce alteration of, blink or click; perhaps a continuation of Middle English bliken (compare blicker), which may have survived in dialect despite not being attested in print for 500 years.