cloot

• “Martin the shepherd — and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, “the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!””

  The Monastery

• “If there cam 'an Irish beggar, wi' a stripy cloot him and a bellows under 's arm, and ca'd himsel 'a Hielander, the lad wad gi'e him his silly head off his shoulders.”

  Tales from Many Sources Vol. V

• “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.”

  My Man Sandy

• “I live by bread, I have not a single cloot o them!”

  The Black Dwarf

• “Harry and I hae been to gather what was on the outby land, and there's scarce a cloot left.”

  The Black Dwarf

• “If there cam 'an Irish beggar, wi' a stripy cloot roond him and a bellows under 's arm, and ca'd himsel 'a Hielander, the lad would gi'e him his silly head off his shoulders.”

  Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough

• “He's sic a leveller as was feow afore 'im, I doobt, wi' his gowd ringt man, an 'his cloot cled brither!”

  The Marquis of Lossie

• “I tellt her 'at a' my brithers was weel kenned for douce laads; an 'she tellt me to haud my tongue, an' no speyk up; an 'I cud hae jist gien her a guid cloot”

  Sir Gibbie

• “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

• “Hoot De Courcy, yer 'speerits are so floostersome one would be inclined to theenk ye were not at all soorry to see the white cloot flying on yonder hill --”

  The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1

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