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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1633
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Clok, Clock, n.2 Also: cloack. [e.m.E. (northern) clocke (1570), of obscure origin.] A beetle. 15.. Christis Kirk 36.
Scho bad ga chat him, Scho compt him nocht twa clokkis 1629 Boyd Last B. 427.
Nothing but a nest of clockes and abominable creeping thinges 1633 Orkney Bishopric Court Book 87.
A great monstrous cloack cam fleeing and buming about ȝow and hir
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