claught

American  

[klawkht, klahkht] / klɔxt, klɑxt /

verb

1. a simple past tense of cleek.

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Example Sentences

But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake; For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle— Ae spring brought off her master hale, But left behind her ain gray tail: The carlin claught her by the rump, And left poor Maggie scarce a stump.

From Project Gutenberg

There cam a gowst of wind, claught her by the coats, and awa’ wi’ her, bag and baggage.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in the young geese.

From Project Gutenberg

But that was her; and she was married again upon my uncle Robin, and went with him a while to kirk and market; 210 and then wearied, or else her friends got claught of her and talked her round, or maybe she turned ashamed; at the least of it, she ran away, and went back to her own folk, and said we had held her in the lake, and I will never tell you all what.

From Project Gutenberg

Up she got, an’ there wasna an auld story in Ba’weary but she gart somebody lowp for it that day; they couldna say ae thing but she could say twa to it; till, at the hinder end, the guidwives up and claught hand o’ her, an’ clawed the coats aff her back, an’ pu’d her doun the clachan to the water o’ Dule, to see if she were a witch or no, soom or droun.

From Project Gutenberg