clote

English

Etymology

From Middle English clote, Old English clāte, from Proto-West Germanic *klaitā.

Noun

clote

1. (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
2. (botany) The yellow waterlily.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Celto-, colet, telco

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

clote

1. Alternative form of clete (“cleat”)

Etymology 2

From Old English clāte, from Proto-West Germanic *klaitā.

Noun

clote (plural clotes)

1. burdock, clote
   • 1380s, John Wycliffe, Bible, Osee [Hosea], 9, vi,

     A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.

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   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologe of the Chanouns Yemannes Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 1987, Larry Dean Benson (editor), The Riverside Chaucer, 2008, 3rd Edition, page 270,

     A clote-leef he hadde under his hood / For swoot and for to keep his heed from heete.

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