clootn.
/kluːt/, /klʊt/, U.S. /klut/, Scottish English /klut/ Scottish and northern dialect.
1. One of the divisions of the hoof, in the ox, sheep, swine, etc.; also, loosely, the hoof as a whole. to take their cloots: (of cattle) ‘to run off’ (Jamieson).
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i Sax guid fat lambs I sald them ilka clute.
1786 R. Burns Poems 62 Upon her cloot she coost a hitch.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 65 Wha kens but what the bits o' brutes..hae taen their clutes An' gane ilk livan ane a' packin'.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iii. 116 The thieves, the harrying thieves! not a cloot left of the hail hirsel!
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xvi. 289 Carcasses—skins and cloots included.
2. plural Cloots n. a name for the Devil. (Cf. Clootie n.)
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the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > cloven hoof
cloven hoofc1175
cleft foot1574
hoof1638
Clootie1786
Cloots1786
1786 R. Burns Poems 61 An' now, auld Cloots.
1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 28 A sight that gart Auld Cloots grow fain.
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