▪ I. claut, n. Sc. and north. dial.
(klɔːt)
[Goes with claut v.; perh. related to claw or claught. (It might possibly represent an OE. *clawet from clav-an to claw. Cf. Sievers, Miscell. f. Ags. Gramm. §246.)]
1. A grasping hand, a clutch.
| 1697 W. Cleland Poems 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: hand-cards for wool.
| 1808 in Jamieson. 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss. (E.D.S.), Claut, a strong rake for raking up mire or rubbish. |
3. A handful, a rakeful, a scraping.
| 1793 Burns Meg o' the Mill i, She has gotten a coof wi' a claut o' siller. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xvii, ‘You might have..heard an excellent discourse.’ ‘Clauts o' cauld parridge’, replied Andrew. |
▪ II. claut, v. Sc. and north. dial.
(klɔːt)
Also clat(e, clawt.
[See claut n. (It might possibly represent an OE. *clawettan, f. clawet; see prec.).]
To scratch, claw, rake, scrape out, extract with claws, or the like.
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1885) 30 This oxx..regardet nocht [the dogs] bot walde clate him with his cluifes. 1674 Ray N. Country Wds. 14 To Claut, to scratch, to claw. 1721–1800 in Bailey. 1790 A. Wilson Elegy Unfort. Tailor Wks. (1846) 45 Soon as ilka dish was clautet. 1823 J. Wilson Trials Marg. Lyndsay 65 (Jam.) Here is four pound. May it do nae guid to him who clawts it out o' the widow's house. 1876 Mid Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clawt, to claw in an indecisive quick manner. 1876 Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clawting, a buffeting, where the fists and fingers are engaged. |