cloot

Martin the shepherd — and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, “the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!”

The Monastery 2008

Mistress Kenawee's face, puir thing, was as white as a cloot; but Sandy's was as black as the man More o 'Vennis, the bleckie that smored his wife i' the theatre for carryin 'on wi' a sodger.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"If there cam 'an Irish beggar, wi' a stripy cloot him and a bellows under 's arm, and ca'd himsel 'a Hielander, the lad wad gi'e him his silly head off his shoulders."

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

I live by bread, I have not a single cloot o them!

The Black Dwarf 1898

Harry and I hae been to gather what was on the outby land, and there's scarce a cloot left.

The Black Dwarf 1898

"If there cam 'an Irish beggar, wi' a stripy cloot roond him and a bellows under 's arm, and ca'd himsel 'a Hielander, the lad would gi'e him his silly head off his shoulders."

Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough 1873

I tellt her 'at a' my brithers was weel kenned for douce laads; an 'she tellt me to haud my tongue, an' no speyk up; an 'I cud hae jist gien her a guid cloot

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

It's no barely to consider the time it'll tak me to cloot a pair, but what the weirer 's like to git oot o 'them.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

He's sic a leveller as was feow afore 'im, I doobt, wi' his gowd ringt man, an 'his cloot cled brither!

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

"Hoot De Courcy, yer 'speerits are so floostersome one would be inclined to theenk ye were not at all soorry to see the white cloot flying on yonder hill --"

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1 John Richardson 1824