clowt

Be not rasche ne recheles, it is not worth a clowt.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Nym etemele and bynd yt in a fayr lynnen clowt and lat yt honge in the pot so that yt thowche nozt the bottym and lat it hongy thereynne

The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

Try the pump, bear up the helme; Master let us breathe and refresh a little, and sling a man overboard [_i. e._ lower a man over the side] to stop the leakes; that is, to trusse him up aboute the middle in a piece of canvas, and a rope to keep him from sinking, and his armes at liberty, with a malet in the one hand, and a plug lapped in Okum, and well tarred in a tarpawling clowt in the other, which he will quickly beat into the hole or holes the bullets made; What cheere mates? is all well?

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922