clishmaclaver

• “A deafening bray shattered the dark, and the forest erupted in front of him with a clishmaclaver of crashing and startled shouts.”

  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

• “But, unfortunately, should any untoward "o'er-night clishmaclaver" occasion the neglect of this duty, and the fire be left, like envy, to feed upon its own vitals, a remedy is at hand in the shape of a pan "o 'live coals" from some more provident neighbour, resident in an upper or lower "flat;" and thus without bundle-wood or "shavings," is the mischief cured.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

• “Prince Rose-Red talked without one second's intermission the whole time I was dressing him; and I allowed it, as papa and Una were not here to be disturbed by the clishmaclaver.”

  Memories of Hawthorne

• “George the Fort 'didna fill the throne verra doucely for a' their clishmaclaver, and I don't think young”

  The House with the Green Shutters

• “It soon became clear to me, that the dialogue about Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like.”

  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith

• “Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like.”

  The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself

• “(Now, don't put any of your squinting constructions on this, or have any clishmaclaver about it among our acquaintances.)”

  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

• “Well, we'd just had a wee blether on the universal nature of brotherly love, when a clishmaclaver broke out, over by your kiln.”

  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

• “He sat rolled up in the corner like a hedgehog, all through the clishmaclaver.”

  Dragonfly in Amber

• “Houts-touts, gentlemen," quo 'I, "what's the use of a' this clishmaclaver?”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827

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