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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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CLOCK, n.5 Also cloke. Sc. forms of Eng. cloak (Edb. 1711 W. Mitchel Petition to Queen Ann 2). Known to Mry.2 c.1900 (for Ags.) and to Fif.10 1943 (for Abd.). The form clocke is found in 16th cent. Eng. (N.E.D.). [klɔk]

1. A cloak. Bnff.2 1943:
It's rainin' cats an' dogs: fling this clock roon yir shou'ders an' rin oot t' the stack for a twathree peats.
Abd. 1768 A. Ross To the Begging . . . v.:
I'll carry to the taylor, A web of hoding gray, That he may mak a clock of it.

Comb.: †clock-bag, a portmanteau.Sc. 1745 March of Highland Army in Spalding Club Misc. (1841) I. 312:
The baggage to be in the rear of Colonel Stewartis Batalion, and the gentlemenis servants that have clock-bags, in the rear of all.

2. The husk of an ear of corn, esp. one with an undeveloped kernel. Hence cloakit corn, clochart-, a corn head in which two seeds are united, one with an undersized kernel and the other, without a kernel, half enveloping the first with its husk (ne.Sc. 1956 W. M. Findlay Oats 158). Sc. 1814 J. Sinclair Agric. Scot. I. 410: 
Small pieces of straw, and clokes or capes, or grain to which the chaff adheres.

3. Appar. the sail of a boat.Sc. 1726 Edb. Ev. Courant (29 Dec.): 
She has had a standing fore Top-sail, the Clock of her Fore-mast is of Murray Canvas.

[O.Sc. clok, clock, from a.1400; clokbag, clock(e)bag, a travelling-bag for holding a cloak, a portmanteau, from 1632 (D.O.S.T.).]

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