An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language - Electric Scotland

CLO [456] CLO
CLOD, s. A flat kind of loaf, made of coarse
wheaten flour, and sometimes of the flour of
pease, S.
Nor wad he wish o'er gentle fare,
Or dainties that are scarce and rare ;
Could he get clod;, and Souter's brandy,
Enough o' that wad please poor Andy.
' '
Half-penny loaf of coarse flour,
Shirrefs' Poems, p. 245.
"
N.
CLODS, s. pi. Small raised loaves, made of
coarse flour, of which three were sold for
five farthings. They have disappeared with
the Lugget rows.
Apparently denominated from ita form, as resembling
a clod of earth. Teut. klotte, massa, gleba, globus
terrae.
Cog o' brose an' cutty spoon
Is a' our cottar childer's boon,
Wha thro' the week, till Sunday's speal,
Toil for pease-clods and guid lang kail.
Fergusson's Poems, xi. 79.
SUTOR'S-CLOD,
Selkirks.
*. A kind of bread used in
Like horse-potatoes, Sutor's-clods
In Selkirk town were rife ;
0' Hour baked, brown, and rough as sods,
By ilka sutor's wife. Lintoun Green, p. 8.
"Sutor's Clods are a kind of coarse brown wheaten
bread, leavened, and surrounded with a thick crust,
"
like lumps of earth. N. ibid.
CLOD-MELL, s. A large
mallet for breaking
the clods of the field, especially on clayey
ground, before harrowing it, Berw., Aberd.
"The roller is often applied to land under a crop of
beans, even after they are considerably above ground,
to break the clods. This operation used formerly to
be done much more expensively by hand with clod mells,
or wooden mallets, on all cloddy land." Agr. Surv.
Berw., p. xxxii.
CLOFF, s. 1. A fissure of any kind.
2. What is otherwise, S., called the cleaving,
Lat. intercapedo.
Consider gif thair doffis bin clene.
Lyndsay's Warkis, 1592, On Syde Taillis, p. 308.
It seems to be used as equivalent to anus, Watson's
Coll., iii. 3.
3. A cleft between adjacent hills, Loth.
4. The cleft of a tree, or that part of it where
the branches separate from each other, Loth.
Isl. kloff, Su.-G. klo/wa, Alem. chlobo, Germ, kloben,
a fissure of any kind. A.-S. deaf-an, Isl. kliuf-a, Alem.
daub-an, Belg. klov-en, Su.-G. klyfw-a, to cleave,
CLOFFLN, s. The act of sitting idly by the
fire, Roxb.
Isl. klnf-a, femora distendere, q. to stretch out the
or C. B. daf, aegrotus, chvyf, defyd, morbus.
limbs ;
CLOFFIN, s. The noise made by
tion of a shoe that is down in the heel, or by
the shoe of a horse when loose, Roxb.
Pron. scloffin and scliffin in Ayrs.
the mo-
Perhaps from the sound suggesting the idea of a
fissure, Su.-G. tlofwa, fissura, from klyfim, rimari.
CLOG, CLOGGE, s. A small, short log, a
short cut of a tree, a thick piece
of timber,
S.
"In the north seas of Scotland, are great dogges of
timber founde, in the which are marvellouslie ingender-
"
ed a sort of geese, called Claik-geese. Descr. of the
Kingdome of Scotlande.
CLOGGAND, s. A portion of pastureground,
whether commonly or enclosed, in
which sheep or cattle have been accustomed
to feed, Ork.
"
That it shall not be lawsum to any man, at any
time of day, but especially after sun-setting and after
sun-rising, to go through his neighbour's doggand or
commonty with ane sheep-dog, except to be accompanied
with two neighbours, famous witnesses." Acts
A. 1623, Barry's Orkney, p. 467, 468.
It has been suggested by some literary friends that
Cloggand "may denote a limited piece of ground near
a farm, where sheep or cattle are restrained from
wandering by means of a dog, or piece of wood, attached
to their feet."
But as I am assured, on good authority, that doggand,
with the limitation specified, is equivalent to
pasture-ground, this explanation seems to be supported
by a phrase which I have met with in Su.-G. As in
our own language, Clu, properly signifying the half of
a hoof, is often used figuratively for the whole animal,
similar is the use of Su.-G. kloef. Parte pro toto sumta
ipsum animal ; quo sensu occurrit saepe in Tabulis
Legum antiquarum. Gaa kloef om kloef, West-G. Leg.
c. 53, dicitur, quumpromiseue pascuntur omnium villicorum
armenta. Ihre, vo. Kloef, col. 1092. The
Su.-G. phrase would be expressed in S., to gae, or
gang, du for du ; i.e. every one sending live stock in
proportion to that of his neighbour. As gaang signifies
walk, I am therefore disposed to think that Cloggand
had originally been kloef-gaang, a cattle-walk,
gang or raik, as we say in S. ; a place where all the
cattle or sheep, belonging to certain grounds, were
allowed to feed in common. We might even suppose
the term to have been originally kloef-gaaende, from
the
part. pr. of Su.-G. gaa ; q. "the place where the
cattle are going."
CLOICH, (gutt.), s. A place of shelter, the
cavity of a rock where one may elude a
search ; given as synon.
with Dool, Ayrs.
This is evidently the same with Clench.
CLOIS, s. A close, an alley, Aberd. Reg. A.
1548, V. 20. Cloiss, ibid., 1525.
CLOIS,
*. Crown.
He had him bring with him the sceptour vand,
The collar picht with orient peirles als,
That sche umquhile war about hir hals,
Of gold also the clois, or double croun,
Set full of precious stonys enniroun.
Doug. Virgil, 33. 43.
For enniroun r. envyroun, as in oldest MS. In the
other it is enveroun. Teut. klos, globus ; Germ, kloss,
corpus rotundum.
CLOYS, s. A cloister, Doug. Teut. Uuyse,
clausura, locus clausus, L. B. clusa.
CLOIT, s. A clown, a stupid, inactive fellow,
S.
Teut. kloete, homo obtusus, hebes,
Kilian. Isl.
klote, homo nauci. Su.-G. klutare, id. The original