▪ I. † clete, clett Obs.
[From same root as clote, q.v.]
= clote, the bur-dock.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xciii. (1495) 661 Clete is an herbe wyth brode leuys..and hathe in the toppe of the stalkes knottes wyth crokyd pryckes: that ofte cleuyth to mannys clothes. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 645 Hec lappa, clete. 1483 Cath. Angl. 67/1 Clett [v.r. cleyt]. |
▪ II. clete
obs. form of cleat n. and clead v.