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claik
▪ I. claik, n. Sc. (kleɪk) [f. claik v.] 1. The cry or call of a goose or other fowl.1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 39 The fox follouit the fed geise, & gart them cry claik. 1808 Jamieson, Claik, the noise made by a hen. 2. Chatter, gossip, clatter. (Cf. cackle.)1790 Morrison Poems 187 (Jam.) The country's f...
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clakke
▪ I. † clake Obs. rare. [OE. clacu:—OTeut. type *klakâ-; occurring also in clacléas, clæcléas (Wr.-Wülcker 419) ‘immunis’, ON. klaklaust scatheless, unhurt.] Hurt, injury, scathe.c 1000 Wulfstan Hom. xiii (18) Nap. 86 Eal scal aspringan wide and side sacu and clacu, hol and hete. c 1200 Ormin 9317 Ȝ...
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Barnacle goose myth
Boece would have known these geese as Claik Geese or Clack Geese and sometimes Clag-geese.
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quink
quink Sc. [? Imitative of the cry.] † 1. A variety of goose, variously identified with the grey-legged goose (Anser ferus) and the brent-goose (Bernicla brenta). Obs.1551 Sc. Acts Mary c. 11 (1814) II. 484 The claik quink and rute the price of the peece xviijd. 1578 Lesley De Orig. Scot. 37 Alia sex...
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ridlaik
† ridlaik Sc. Obs. A species of wild goose.1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 59 marg., The vulgar with thir names distinguises thame, The Quinck, Skilling, Claik, Routhurrok, Ridlaik.
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dunter
dunter local. (ˈdʌntə(r)) [In sense 1 prob., in 2 certainly, f. dunt v.1] 1. A local name of the eider-duck (app. originally in Orkney and Shetland). Also dunter-goose, dunter-duck.1693 J. Wallace Orkney 16 Plenty both of wild and tame fowls..Dunter-Goose, Claik-Goose. 1768 Wales in Phil. Trans. LX....
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corrector
corrector (kəˈrɛktə(r)) Forms: 4 corectour, (5–6 Sc. correker, -ar), 5–7 correctour, 6–9 -er, 6– -or. [a. Anglo-Fr. co(r)rectour = F. correcteur, ad. L. correctōr-em agent-n. f. corrigĕre to correct: see -or.] 1. One who corrects or sets right; one who points out errors or faults, and substitutes or...
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rout
▪ I. rout, n.1 (raʊt) Forms: α. 3–4 rute, 4 rut(te; 3– route, 4–7 rowte, 5 rouwte, 5–6 routte; 4– rout (6 routt), 4–7 rowt. β. 3 rouȝte, 5 roughte; 4 rouht, 5–6 rought; 5 rowght, 5–6 rowth. [a. AF. rute, OF. route (also rote, rotte, whence rot n.2):—L. rupta, fem. of ruptus broken, the original sens...
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plain
▪ I. plain, n.1 (pleɪn) Forms: see plain a.1 [a. OF. plain:—L. plān-um a plain, prop. neut. of plān-us plain a.1] 1. a. A tract of country of which the general surface is comparatively flat; an extent of level ground or flat meadow land; applied spec. (in proper or quasi-proper names) to certain ext...
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