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cloit

cloit verb: to fall heavily.

Verb

cloit (third-person singular simple present cloits, present participle cloiting, simple past and past participle cloited)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To fall heavily
    • James Kennedy, The Droukit Pedlar
      Dazed was he, an’ fairly doitit,
      Kack’d wi’ anguish o’ despair,
      Sprauchled up, then owre he cloited,
      Cowpit catmaw doun the stair.
    Synonyms:
    clyte

Synonyms of cloit

Forms of cloit

third-person singular presentcloits
present participlecloiting
past participlecloited
pastcloited

Questions about cloit

What does cloit mean?
Cloit means to fall heavily.
What part of speech is cloit?
Cloit is a verb.
What is the past tense of cloit?
The past tense of cloit is cloited.

Words near cloit in the dictionary

  1. cloistral
  2. cloistre
  3. cloistres
  4. cloistress
  5. cloistresses
  6. cloit
  7. Clojure
  8. cloke
  9. cloked
  10. clokes
  11. cloking

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