Crossword clues for clouting
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
n. A light plain cloth used for covering butter and farmer's baskets, and for dish and pudding cloths. The same term is often given to light cloths of the nursery diaper pattern. vb. (present participle of clout English)
Usage examples of "clouting".
Merdine hadn't your inches: as well for a seaman who'd be clouting his head all the time on beams.
Sigomal shrieked back, stepping forward and clouting Gomalsi so hard across the face that the young man fell backward over the bench.
A black-white stickup gang had been clouting markets and juke joints on West Adams, the white guy passing himself off as a member of Mickey Cohen's mob, coercing the proprietor into opening up the safe for the monthly protection payment while the negro guy looked around innocently, then hit the cash registers.
At the same time she felt the stunning pain of something heavy clouting her across her back.