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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†CLANKET, n. ? A beetle used in fulling cloth.Dmf. 1823 J. Kennedy Poems and Songs 85:
Here a kind o' wooden clankets Daddin on wi' stinted scoup, Wauking some wife's white skin blankets.

[Perhaps from Clank, v. (1), + -et, a reduction of Rom. suff. -art, sometimes used to denote agent.]

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