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cloot Sc. and north. dial.
(klʊt, Sc. klʏt)
Also clute.
[Of obscure etymology, the early history being wanting: prob. a deriv. of ON. kló, or OTeut. type *klôw(a) claw. (Cf. Du. klauwtje little claw.)]
1. One of the divisions of the hoof, in the ox, sheep, swine, etc.; also, loosely, the hoof as a whole. to take their cloots: (of cattle) ‘to run off’ (Jam.).
1725Ramsay Gentl. Sheph. i. i, Sax guid fat lambs I sald them ilka clute. 1781Burns Death Poor Mailie 3 Upon her cloot she coost a hitch. 1788Picken Poems 65 (Jam.) Wha kens but what the bits o' brutes..hae taen their clutes An' gane ilk livan ane a' packin'. 1820Scott Monast. iii, ‘The thieves, the harrying thieves! not a cloot left of the hail hirsel!’ 1844W. H. Maxwell Sport & Adv. Scotl. xvi. (1855) 149 Carcasses—skins and cloots included.
2. pl. Cloots: a name for the Devil. (Cf. Clootie.)
1787Burns Addr. Deil xx, An' now, auld Cloots. 1858M. Porteous Souter Johnny 28 A sight that gart Auld Cloots grow fain. |