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clat

British  
/ klæt /

noun

  1. dialect an irksome or troublesome task

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It also had the magic of 3-D, whose consumer clat and higher prices are supposed to guarantee hits in any genre.

From Time Aug. 22, 2010

Rollickingly free of her and yet how devilishly his shoes could clat on the sidewalk.

From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst

“There, do hold thee clat, and—there, yeat that.”

From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

Don’t you take any notice of his silly clat.

From A Life's Eclipse by J. Nash

And here’s yer everlasting soles and yer machinery and clat!

From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn

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