† clouteryn.
Obsolete. rare.
Clouter's work; something clumsily patched up.
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 319 Craftely to cloake those clouteries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.1581- to put in the boot
- to put in the chair
- to put in the corner
- to put in the dozen
- to put in the dozens
- to put in the family way
- to put in the hard yards
- to put in the head of
- to put in the hole
- to put in the leather
- to put in the mercy
- to put in the picture
- to put in the pin
- to put in the squeak
- to put in the way
- to put in the way of
- to put in the well
- to put in train
- to put in vogue
- to put in way
- to put in way of
- to put in weening
- to put in wite
- to put in words
- to put in work