▪ I. clote
(kləʊt)
Forms: 1 cláte, 3– clote, (4–5 cloote), 7 cloat, 7–9 clots, (cluts, clowts).
[OE. cláte:—OTeut. type *klaitôn-: indicating a pre-Teut. root *gleid- (glid-, gloid-), prob. related to the simpler glei- to stick (see clay).
Of other names for this and similar plants, clete (?:—klaitjôn) and clite (?:—klit- or klît-) evidently belong to the same root; but clithe, and its family (root *glī̆t-) and Ger. klette with its allies (root *glet-) are not connected, at least directly, though like clive and its cognates (root *glibh-) all may be ultimately based on the simpler *glei-, gli-.]
1. The Burdock (Arctium Lappa); also the prickly balls or burs which it bears.
| a 700 Epinal Gl. 144 Blitum clatae [Erf. & Corpus clate; Leiden Gl. 45 Lappa clate]. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 56 Bisceop wyrt..& clatan, wyl on ealað. c 1265 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 557 Lappa, bardane, clote. 1382 Wyclif Hosea x. 8 Cloote and breere shal stye on the auters of hem. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 12 Bardana, clote, gert burr. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xciii. (Tollem. MS.), ‘Lappa’, þe clote [1535 clete]..haþ..knottes with crokid prikkes þat ofte cleueþ to mannis cloþes. a 1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 20 Clote, cuius fructus uocatur, Burre. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Bardane, the herb..Cloates that beareth the greene Burre. c 1580 Puttenham in Nichols Progress Q. Eliz. III. 479 Clinginge as fast as little clotes Or burres uppon younge children's cotes. 1611 Cotgr., Lampourde, the cloat, or great Burre. 1691 Ray N.C. Words, Cluts, clots, petasites; rather burrdock. 1708 Motteux Rabelais iv. lii. (1737) 214 Lousebur, Clote. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 11, Persolata, a burdock, the herb clots, that beareth the greatest bur. 1820–26 Wilbraham Gloss. Chesh., Clots or clouts, burrs or burdock. |
2. Applied to other plants either from some resemblance to the preceding, or through some mistake: among these are Clivers (Galium Aparine), the Bur-weed (Xanthium Strumarium), the Coltsfoot and Butter-bur (Tussilago farfara and Petasites); the Yellow Water Lily (Nuphar lutea), (Water Clote), the latter still in s.w. of England.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 122 Genim doccan oððe clatan þa þe swimman wolde. Ibid. I. 306 Þa man eac oþrum naman clate nemneð..ys stið on leafon, & heo hafað greatne stelan, & hwite blostman, & heo hafað heard sæd & sine⁓wealt. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 43 Ungula caballina est duplex, videlicet terrestris..et aquatica cujus flos dicitur nenufar. Ungula caballina campestris i. clote. 1572 L. Mascall Govt. Cattle 222 (Br. & Holl.) Water-clot..which hath a broad leaf on the water. c 1610 Fletcher Faithf. Sheph. ii. i, This is the Clote bearing a yellow flower. 1863 Barnes Dorset Gram. & Gloss. 48 Clote, the yellow water-lily. |
3. attrib. and Comb., as clote-leaf, clote-ridden. See also clot-bur, clot-weed.
| c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 24 A Clote leef he hadde vnder his hood ffor swoot, and for to kepe his heed from heete. 1864 Barnes in Macm. Mag. Oct. 478 On where the clote-ridden river do flow. |
▪ II. clote
obs. form of clot, clout.
▪ III. clote
(? read clete), obs. form of cleat n.