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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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CLEATHIN, Cleathen, Claithing, Cleeding, n. Also clading. Part of a plough, gen. the mouldboard, which turns the earth over, but also applied (prob. erroneously) in Abd. to the plough-share (Abd.¹³, Abd.¹⁴ 1914). The two Bnff. quots. use cleathin = mouldboard and J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (1869) II. 721 gives cleeding for Fif. with this meaning. [′kli:ðən Bnff., Abd. + ′kle:ðən, Deeside + ′klɛdən (Abd.⁸); ′klidən Fif.]Rs. 1877 Trans. Highl. Soc. 86: 
Required to fix the clading (or mouldboard) of deals.Bnff.⁶ 1914:
Yer ploo'll mak cleaner wark, ance the cleathin gets scourt a bit in the workin.Bnff.² 1936:
Waal a new bittie on t' th' eyn o' this cleathen, smith.Abd.(D) a.1807 J. Skinner Amusements (1809) 117:
The pleugh needs claithing and must have it new.