Scottish Language Letter Cle To
CLE [449] CLE 1 radically the same. From the form of the A.-S. word, Nor his bra targe, on which is seen it seems to have been common to the Celtic and The ycr.l, the sin, the lift, the Can well agree wi' his cair Gothic ; and probably dough had originally aamc cleuck, That cleikit was for thift. sense with Ir. rloiclte, of, or belonging to, a rock or Poems in the Buchan 12. stone. V. CLOWK. Dialect, p. This term is transferred Satchels, when giving the origin of the title Sue- to the hands from their i-li or hold of E. of niih, supplies us with a proof of clench and heuclt being griping laying objects. clutch, which neither Skinner nor Johnson is synon. : gives any etymon, evidently from the same Junius derives clutches Ami for the buck thou stoutly brought origin. from to shake ; but without reason. To us up that steep heugh, Belg. klut-en, any Thy designation ever shall Shaw gives Gael, glaic as signifying clutch. Somner Be John Scot in [ot\Buckscleugh. views the E. word as formed from A.-S. gecliht, "col- History Jfame of Scot, p. 37. lectus, gathered tegether : hand gecliht, manus collecta vel contracta," in modern language, a clinched fat. CLEUCII, adj. 1. Clever, dextrous, light- But perhaps cleuk is rather a dimin. from Su.-G. klo, fingered. One is said to have cleuch hands, Teut. klaawe, a claw or talon. Were there such a word as Teut. as from or to be "cleuch of the fingers," who lifts klugue, unguis, (mentioned GL the resemblance would be so that do not Kilian, Lyndsay, ) greater.
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