cloots

"cloots" of a camel would not have been more conspicuous in the mud of an English road, than were the shoe-prints of the three young seamen in the sands of the Saara.

The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

Nay doot ye'll thieve the winding claes from my corpse to make cloots for your snotty-nosed bairns, and where's my good brooch I said I wanted to be buried with?

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

The rattlin 'o' the scales at the back o 'the cairt fleggit him, an' aff he set at full tear, the lang skranky legs o 'him wallopin' about like torn cloots atween him an 'the grund.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I didna ken whuther to flee up the yaird, roar oot "feyre," or clim 'up on the dyke an' gie them a wallop roond the linders wi 'my bits o' cloots.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"Weel, weel; they're scarce o 'cloots that mend their hose wi' dockens."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Clootie, cloots, hoofie, hoofs (a nickname of the Devil).

Glossary 1909

When a hundred sheep rin, how mony cloots clatter?

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

"They're a bonny pair," as the deil said o 'his cloots.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

"Ye are in ayont the auld ane himsel, for our lass Tibbie saw his cloven cloots last night."

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802

Today have been up to the Clan Gunn Museum just north of Dunbeath, then came back to Inverness via the Black Isle stopping at a Clootie Well which was a bit etheral as every tree and bush around the well was festooned with bits of clothing (cloots).

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