cloot

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Mistress Kenawee's face, puir thing, was as white as a cloot; but Sandy's was as black as the man More o' Vennis, the bleckie that smored his wife i' the theatre for carryin' on wi' a sodger What a job Dauvid an' me had gettin' them roond.

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  1. A divided hoof; a cloven hoof. The harrying thieves! not a cloot left of the hail hirsel! Scott, Monastery, iii.
  2. Cloot-and-cloot hoof-and-hoof—that is, every hoof.

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  • Mistress Kenawee's face, puir thing, was as white as a cloot; but Sandy's was as black as the man More o' Vennis, the bleckie that smored his wife i' the theatre for carryin' on wi' a sodger What a job Dauvid an' me had gettin' them roond. —  My Man Sandy
  • He instantly flew upon Dickie, and was about to poniard him, when the marauder, with the address noticed by Lesley, protested that he would never have touched a cloot (hoof) of them, had he not taken them for Drummelziar's property. —  Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1
  • It's no barely to consider the time it'll tak me to cloot a pair, but what the weirer 's like to git oot o 'them. —  Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
  • Wi 'a besom an' a cloot. —  Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
  • "As I live by bread," replied Willie of Westburnflat "As I live by bread, I have not a single cloot o 'them! —  The Black Dwarf
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  1. Scots, also written clute, a cloven hoof, the half of a cloven hoof; perhaps, through a form *cluft (see eleft), from root of cleave, split: see cleave, and cf. cloof.
 

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