Clodt

As subst. Jer 38" " ' So Ebed-melech took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and . . said unto Jeremiah, Put now tliese old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armlioles under the cords.' As vb. los 9° ' oki shoes and clouted upon their feet' (Anier. RV 'patched'). Cf. Shaks. 2 Henry VI. IV. ii. 195— ' Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon ;' and Latimer, Serm. p.

110, 'Paul yea, and Peter too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent, than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters.' The word is Celtic, and came in early, bit Wyclif, in Jos 9°, has 'sowid with iJatchis.' J. Hastings.