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klatawaw

klatawaw is the alternative spelling of clattawa.

Meaning of clattawa

Verb

clattawa (third-person singular simple present clattawas, present participle clattawa-ing, simple past and past participle clattawa-ed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, west coast North America: British Columbia to Oregon) To go; depart, leave.
    • From the above, our friends in the States will readily see that we are not only blessed with a rich soil, and superior mineral wealth, but a climate infinitely superior to that of their present abode. Pack up, therefore, ye frozen tillicums and clatawau over to Oregon.1850, Working Farmer, vol. 1-4, page 175

Forms of klatawaw

third-person singular presentklatawaws
present participleklatawawing
past participleklatawawed
pastklatawawed

Questions about klatawaw

What is klatawaw the alternative spelling of?
Klatawaw is the alternative spelling of clattawa.

Words near klatawaw in the dictionary

  1. Klass
  2. Klasses
  3. klassevirus
  4. klasseviruses
  5. klat
  6. klatawaw
  7. klatawawed
  8. klatawawing
  9. klatawaws
  10. klatch
  11. klatches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: klatawaw (page history and authors); clattawa (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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