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- noun Alternative form of
clabber .
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Examples
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Their faces were daubed with clauber; it matted great beards, and entangled the coarse hairs on chests and brawny arms.
Australia Felix 2003
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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.
Ulysses 2003
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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
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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
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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
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a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
brtom commented on the word clauber
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