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clairt

clairt is the alternative form of clart.

Meaning of clart

Verb

clart (third-person singular simple present clarts, present participle clarting, simple past and past participle clarted)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
    • Chris boiled water in kettles for hours and hours and then towels came down, towels clairted with stuff she didn't dare look at, she washed them quick and hung them to dry.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 43

See all 6 meanings of clart

Forms of clairt

third-person singular presentclairts
present participleclairting
past participleclairted
pastclairted

Questions about clairt

What is clairt the alternative form of?
Clairt is the alternative form of clart.

Words near clairt in the dictionary

  1. clairschachs
  2. clairsentience
  3. clairsentient
  4. clairsentients
  5. clairshach
  6. clairt
  7. clairting
  8. clairts
  9. clairty
  10. clairvoyance
  11. clairvoyances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clairt (page history and authors); clart (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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