cleitn.

/kliːt/

Forms: Also cleet, clett.

Etymology: Gaelic cléit rocky eminence; compare clet n., < Old Norse klettr cliff, crag.

local.

A small shelter, often used for storing peat, birds' eggs, etc.

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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > of specific kind

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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Cleit, a cot-house; Aberd[een] Reg[isters].

1903 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 17 The Fork-tailed Petrels on Borrera, St. Kilda, nest in the ‘cleets’ or little turf houses of the natives, among the sods of dry turf.

1927 Glasgow Herald 1 July 12 Small stone shelters known locally [St. Kilda] as Cleits.

1937 Brit. Birds 30 236 It [sc. the Fork-tailed Petrel] will eventually be definitely proved to breed among the stone ‘cleits’ built by the men who visit the island annually to collect young gannets.

1952 J. Fisher Fulmar vi. 130 These were the famous St. Kilda cletts, or cleits.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cleit
释义	cleitn. /kliːt/ Forms: Also cleet, clett. Etymology: Gaelic cléit rocky eminence; compare clet n., < Old Norse klettr cliff, crag. local. A small shelter, often used for storing peat, birds' eggs, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > of specific kind hover1602 cleit1825 bender1934 palapa1957 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Cleit, a cot-house; Aberd[een] Reg[isters]. 1903 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 17 The Fork-tailed Petrels on Borrera, St. Kilda, nest in the ‘cleets’ or little turf houses of the natives, among the sods of dry turf. 1927 Glasgow Herald 1 July 12 Small stone shelters known locally [St. Kilda] as Cleits. 1937 Brit. Birds 30 236 It [sc. the Fork-tailed Petrel] will eventually be definitely proved to breed among the stone ‘cleits’ built by the men who visit the island annually to collect young gannets. 1952 J. Fisher Fulmar vi. 130 These were the famous St. Kilda cletts, or cleits. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1825
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