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  • noun Alternative form of clabber.

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Examples

  • Their faces were daubed with clauber; it matted great beards, and entangled the coarse hairs on chests and brawny arms.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.

    Ulysses 2003

  • I have known the sour milk, and clauber to be served out to the hands, when there was an abundance of milk on the plantation.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • I have known the sour milk, and clauber to be served out to the hands, when there was an abundance of milk on the plantation.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • I have known the sour milk, and clauber to be served out to the hands, when there was an abundance of milk on the plantation.

    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

  • a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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  • Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 9

    January 6, 2007