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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

But, for the soliloquies, and the grand conference with the mother! oh, there, Garrick rose up to my remembrance with an clat of perfection that mocks all approach of approbation for a successor.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

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

From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst

Of the pat, pat, patter and the clat, clat, clatter of small claws upon the roof!

From Dorothy's House Party by Evelyn Raymond

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

From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

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