The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clote \Clote\ (kl[=o]t), n. [AS. cl[=a]te: cf. G. klette.]
The common burdock; the clotbur. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) The common burdock; the clotbur.
Usage examples of "clote".
This worm testifies to the faith of its worminger, who tirelessly burnishes its linctures, disimpedes its clote, scrapes and combs the gills until they shine like silver!
Should you see a yellow bilious creature with bloated fausicles, gills crusted with gangue, an impacted clote, who is thereby at fault?
Long ago, in the days when Clote Scarpe ruled the animals, Meeko was much larger than he is now, large as Mooween the bear.
So Clote Scarpe, to save the little woods-people, made Meeko smaller--small as he is now.
Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess has a reference to this property of the plant: 'This is the clote bearing a yellow flower, And this black horehound: both are very good For sheep or shepherd bitten by a wood-Dog's venom'd tooth.