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clour

clour noun: a field.

Noun (1)

clour (plural clours)

  1. (obsolete) A field.

Verb

clour (third-person singular simple present clours, present participle clouring, simple past and past participle cloured)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To inflict a blow on; punch.
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To make a dent or bump on; ding.

Noun (2)

clour (plural clours)

  1. (Scotland) A blow or impingement.

Forms of clour

Noun
pluralclours
Verb
third-person singular presentclours
present participleclouring
past participlecloured
pastcloured

Origin of clour

From Middle English cloure (“field”).

From Scots clour, from Early Scots clour, clowr (“a lump or swelling caused by a blow, welt”), of uncertain origin. Often assumed to be a variant of Scots cloor (“to scratch; a scratch”), from Norwegian klore (“to scratch with the nails”), from Old Norse klóra (“to scrawl, scratch”), klór (“a scratching”), however derivation is doubtful as the shift in meaning is difficult to explain. More at cloor.

Questions about clour

What does clour mean?
Clour means a field.
What part of speech is clour?
Clour can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of clour?
The plural of clour is clours.

Words near clour in the dictionary

  1. Cloughaneely
  2. Cloughfold
  3. Cloughjordan
  4. Cloughoge
  5. cloughs
  6. clour
  7. cloured
  8. clouring
  9. clours
  10. clous
  11. Clouse

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