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clavies

clavies is the plural of clavie.

clavies is the plural of clavy.

Meaning of clavie

Noun

clavie (plural clavies)

  1. A cask split in two and ceremonially burned as part of an ancient Scottish custom still observed at Burghead, a fishing village on the Moray Firth.

Meaning of clavy

Noun

clavy (plural clavies)

  1. (archaic) A mantelpiece.

Questions about clavies

What is clavies the plural of?
Clavies is the plural of clavie.

Words near clavies in the dictionary

  1. clavier
  2. clavierist
  3. clavieristic
  4. clavierists
  5. claviers
  6. clavies
  7. claviform
  8. claviforms
  9. claviger
  10. clavigerous
  11. clavigers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clavies (page history and authors); clavie (page history and authors); clavy (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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