Clink, C, a sounding blow.
“An’ brong Fisher Jemmy a clink i’ the lug.”
Anderson. Burgh Reaces.
Clippin’, C, sheep-shearing. A great festival on the larger dale farms. For a description see “The Old Man,” first edition.
Clemm’d, C, starved with hunger. A Lancashire and Cheshire word.
Nixon, the Cheshire prophet, said he was “going to London to be clemm’d,” and was accidentally shut up in a closet without food, and there found dead—so fulfilling his prophecy.
Clot-heed, C, blockhead.
“I is gà’n to be a clot-heed—I’s leavin’ nin for mysel’!”
Anthony Gasgarth, carving a goose at a hunt dinner.
Clowk, C, clutch or grasp greedily.