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▪ I. clouting, vbl. n.|ˈklaʊtɪŋ|
[f. clout v.]
1. The action of mending, patching, etc.
1382Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 509 Cristis clene religioun wiþ⁓oute cloutynge of sinfulle mennis errours. c1440Promp. Parv. 84 Clowtynge of clothys, sartura. c1490Ibid. (MS. K) Clowtynge of shone, pictacio. 1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 30 b, Here passe I ouer the clowtynge in of their canonicall houres. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 49 It is a bad sacke that will abide no cloutyng. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 294 An Arab man in cloak of his own clouting.
attrib.1590Greene Never too late (1600) 96 To furnish a Coblers shoppe with clowting leather.
2. Cuffing, striking with the hand.
3. = bagging vbl. n.2: see clout v. 8.
▪ II. clouting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That ‘clouts’ or patches; botching, bungling.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 415 A wonderfull clownishe conclusion, meete for such a clowting botcher. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 82 To heare how some such clouting beetles rowle in their loblogicke. |