A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire

by George Edward Dartnell; E. H. Goddard

Clites, Clytes. Galium Aparine, L., Goosegrass (A.). Usually pl., but Jefferies has sing., Clite, in Wild Life, ch. ix.—N. & S.W.

Clitty. Tangled, matted together.—S.W.

Clock. A dandelion seed-head, because children play at telling the time of day by the number of puffs it takes to blow away all its down.—N. & S.W.

Cloddy. Thick, plump, stout (H.Wr.).—S.W.

Clog-weed. Heracleum Sphondylium, L., Cow-parsnip (Amateur Poacher, ch. vi).—N.W.

Clot. A hard lump of dry cow-dung, left on the surface of a pasture. See Cow-clat.—N.W.

'On pasture farms they beat clots or pick up stones.'—R. Jefferies, Letter to Times, Nov. 1872.

'1661. Itm p^d Richard Sheppard & Old Taverner for beating clatts in Inglands, 00. 04. 08.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 226.

*Clote. n. Verbascum Thapsus, L., Great Mullein (Aubrey's Wilts MS.).—Obsolete.

Clothes-brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel. Cf. Brushes.—S.W.