Crossword clues for clouted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clout \Clout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clouting.] [OE. clutien. clouten, to patch. See Clout, n.]
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To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet.
--Josh. ix. 5.Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
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To join or patch clumsily.
If fond Bavius vent his clouted song.
--P. Fletcher To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
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To give a blow to; to strike. [Low]
The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it.
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To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk.
--A. Philips.Note: ``Clouted brogues'' in Shakespeare and ``clouted shoon'' in Milton have been understood by some to mean shoes armed with nails; by others, patched shoes.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: clout)
Usage examples of "clouted".
Since the tomcats, which had not been fixed, emitted a fierce, uncompromising smell, the musician clouted them with a fire poker one day when for particular reasons he found the smell particularly distasteful, stuffed their remains in a potato sack, carried the sack down four flights of stairs, and was in a great hurry to stow the bundle in the garbage can in the court beside the carpet rack, because the burlap was not water- nor bloodproof and began to drip before he was even half down the stairs.
He should have clouted her smartly as she deserved, but he'd never hit a child or anyone so much smaller than he, much less a female.
And 'tis doubtful he would feel a gentle hand if I clouted him on the head with one.
I nearly clouted her when I thought she was a serving lad with a surly tongue.
It took twelve minutes, and two of the younger women fainted, while the dark-haired girl started a sobbing fit until the surgeon clouted her, then later vomited in a corner and had to be released outside.
Black Bob served them, but he was sadder and more obsequious than ever, and was clouted when he raised a smile.
The first king of Bohemia kept his clouted old shoes ever in his sight, that he might never forget that he had once been a ploughman.
Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
I was back within two hours with the tube and a couple of interesting audiocassettes from the van I'd clouted.
Red lights and I ran them and cut it close and had to lock over to avoid a patrol car storming through on the green but the front wheels of the limousine went into a skid and the offside wing clouted the patrol car and sent it spinning full circle across the intersection with its headlights sweeping the buildings and flashing once across my eyes before I got the Zil straight and saw the construction site coming up through the haze of snow.
Then the tenor, who had the reputation for being a big hitter, blocked four balls, then clouted a six over Lysander's leaping outstretched fingers deep into the dark midgy wood behind.
Gray Beaver clouted him right and left to make him get up and follow.