Word.ws English Dictionary

clarting

clarting is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about clarting

What is clarting the present participle and gerund of?
Clarting is the present participle and gerund of clart.

Words near clarting in the dictionary

  1. clarseachs
  2. clart
  3. clarted
  4. clartier
  5. clartiest
  6. clarting
  7. clarts
  8. clarty
  9. clary
  10. clary sage
  11. clary water

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clarting (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “clarting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/clarting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.