clautn.
/klɔːt/, U.S. /klɔt/, /klɑt/, Scottish English /klɔt/ Scottish and northern dialect.
1. A grasping hand, a clutch.
ΚΠ
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 38 For Blew bonnets they leave non, That they can get their Clauts upon.
2. An instrument for raking or scraping, as a hoe, mud-scraper. clauts n. hand-cards for wool.
ΚΠ
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Claut, a strong rake for raking up mire or rubbish.
3. A handful, a rakeful, a scraping.
ΚΠ
1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 689 She has gotten a coof wi' a claut o' siller.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. iv. 70 ‘You might have..heard an excellent discourse.’ ‘Clauts o' cauld parridge’, replied Andrew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
clautv.
/klɔːt/, U.S. /klɔt/, /klɑt/, Scottish English /klɔt/ Scottish and northern dialect.
To scratch, claw, rake, scrape out, extract with claws, or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scratch > with thorns, nails, claws, etc.
scrapec1430
to scratch out?1527
claut1596
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 30 This oxx..regardet nocht [the dogs] bot walde clate him with his cluifes.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 14 To Claut, to scratch, to claw.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 91 Soon as ilka dish was clautet.
1823 J. Wilson Trials Margaret Lyndsay ix. 65 Here is four pound. May it dae nae guid to him who clawts it out o' the widow's house.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Clawt, to claw in an indecisive quick manner.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Clawting, a buffeting, where the fists and fingers are engaged.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.a1689v.1596