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单词 claye
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clayen.

/kleɪ/
Forms: Also cley.
Etymology: < French claie, in 14th cent. claye , in same sense; Old French also cloie from originally cleie , in Provençal cleda < late Latin clēta (compare sēta , seda ; seie , soie ; say n.2), in medieval Latin also clida , clia . The diminutive clētella occurs in Gregory of Tours; the late Latin clēta was probably of Celtic origin: compare Irish cliath , Welsh clwyd , Cornish cluit , Breton cloued , all going back to an original clēta , and all meaning ‘hurdle’. Du Cange has the medieval Latin forms cleia , claia , cloia , chloëa , clida , also cleida , clita , clada , clades , claga : compare clate n.
A hurdle (see quots.).
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c1307 Lett. Edw. II, Rymer III. 32/1 Pontes et claias pro instanti passagio nostro.
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-W. 126/16 Cleta, cratis, hyrdel.
c1150 in Wr.-W. 547/38 Cleta, hurdel.
1306 Charter in Somner Treat. de Gavelkind (1660) App. 190 Pro xviij... Cladibus faciendis ad Ovile. sex denar.]
1708–21 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Claye (F.), a Hurdle of Rods wattled together: in Fortification, Clayes are Wattles made of strong Stakes interwoven with Osiers..to cover Lodgments, with Earth heap'd on them. Cley (country-wd.), a Hurdle for penning or folding Sheep.
1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Clayes; also Cley as in Kersey.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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