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cloe-board
cloe-board, -hammer obs. variants of claw-board (= clapboard), claw-hammer. [Perh. really for clove-bord, -hammer: see clove ppl. a.]1666 Lond. Gaz. No. 37/1 Five sayl of the Hamborough Fleet..chiefly loaden with Cloe-boards. 1623 R. Whitbourne Newfoundland 76 Mattocks and Cloe Hammers.
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cloy-board
cloy-board obs. (? erroneous) f. clove-board: cf. cloe-board.1636 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For a cloy bord spent about the pullpet js. vjd. For sawinge of the cloy boord iiijd.
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