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clat

British

/ klæt /

noun

dialect an irksome or troublesome task

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Love hath my name y-strike out of his sclat, And he is strike out of my bokes clene For ever-mo; ther is non other mene.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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