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cleck, v. Chiefly Sc.|klɛk|
Also 5–6 clek.
[a. ON. klekja, in Sw. kläcka, Da. klække to hatch. Cf. cletch.]
1. trans. Of birds: To hatch. Also absol.
1500–20Dunbar Schir, Ȝit Remembir 24 Kynd natyve nest dois clek bot owlis. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 388 Birdis clekkit as tha war wont till do. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1885) 40 To cleck burdis of thir egis.
2. transf. Of human beings. (Contemptuously.)
1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 95 Ȝe ben clekkid out to pursuwe holi chirche. 1513Douglas æneis iv. vii. 9 The[e] clekkit that horrible mont, Caucasus hait. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, Since the day ye was cleckit.
3. fig. To hatch (devices, plots, etc.).
1578Gude & Godlie Ball. (1868) 91 The Amelekis, that lesingis weill can clek. 1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. ii. i, To cleck, and spread the grossest lies aff-hand. |