clouting

Verb

clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)

1. (transitive) To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.
   • The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.[1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts)...
2. (transitive) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
   • Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters.1549, Hugh Latimer, “[The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty, within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549.] To the...
3. (transitive) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
4. (transitive) To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
5. (transitive) To join or patch clumsily.
   • if fond Bavius vent his clouted song1633, Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island

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