cloof, clufe north. dial.
[cf. ON. klauf cloven hoof, Da. klov claw, hoof; also clove n.1 3.]
| 1500–20 Dunbar Thistle & Rose 99 This Lady liftit up his [the lion's] cluvis. 1513 Douglas æneis xiii. ii. 14 The bustuus swyne That wyth thar clovis [ed. 1710 clufis] can the erd smyte. 1851 Cumberland Gloss., Cluves, hoofs of horses or cows. 1872 J. G. Murphy Comm. on Lev. xi. 3 The hoof is severed into cloofs. |