clamihewit Sc.
(ˌklæmɪˈhjuɪt)
Also clame-, clammy-, clawmi-, clam-.
[Etymol. unknown. Jamieson offered the guess claw my heued or head: but heued has been obs. in north. dial. for 500 years.]
A drubbing, a blow. Also a misfortune. (Jamieson).
| a 1774 Fergusson Hallowfair Poet. Wks. (1845) 15 Frae a stark Lochaber axe He gat a clamihewit. 1785 Jrnl. fr. Lond. 8 in Poems Buchan Dial. (Jam.), Some o' the chiels might lat a raught at me, an' gi' me a clamiheuit to snib me free comin that gate agen. 1834 M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 207 ‘Get up, Saunders..or I'll take ye siccan a clamhewit with my stick.’ |