Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) preterit and past participle of clatch.
- noun A catch; a hold: as, I took a claught o' him.
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Examples
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It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in the young geese.
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But that was her; and she was married again upon my Uncle Robin, and went with him awhile to kirk and market; and then wearied, or else her friends got claught of her and talked her round, or maybe she turned ashamed; at the least of it, she ran away, and went back to her own folk, and said we had held her in the lake, and I will never tell you all what.
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There cam a gowst of wind, claught her by the coats, and awa 'wi' her bag and baggage.
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Ba'weary but she gart somebody lowp for it that day; they couldnae say ae thing but she could say twa to it; till, at the hinder end, the guidwives up and claught haud of her, and clawed the coats aff her back, and pu'd her doun the clachan to the water o 'Dule, to see if she were
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in the young geese.
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There cam a gowst of wind, claught her by the coats, and awa 'wi' her bag and baggage.
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But that was her; and she was married again upon my Uncle Robin, and went with him awhile to kirk and market; and then wearied, or else her friends got claught of her and talked her round, or maybe she turned ashamed; at the least of it, she ran away, and went back to her own folk, and said we had held her in the lake, and I will never tell you all what.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But that was her; and she was married again upon my Uncle Robin, and went with him awhile to kirk and market; and then wearied, or else her friends got claught of her and talked her round, or maybe she turned ashamed; at the least of it, she ran away, and went back to her own folk, and said we had held her in the lake, and I will never tell you all what.
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There cam a gowst of wind, claught her by the coats, and awa 'wi' her bag and baggage.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in the young geese.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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