Sc. Also clame-, clammy-, clawmi-, clam-. [Etymol. unknown. Jamieson offered the guess claw my heued or head: but heued has been obs. in north. dial. for 500 years.] A drubbing, a blow. Also a misfortune. (Jamieson).
a. 1774. Fergusson, Hallowfair, Poet. Wks. (1845), 15. Frae a stark Lochaber axe He gat a clamihewit.
1785. Jrnl. fr. Lond., 8, in Poems Buchan Dial. (Jam.). Some o’ the chiels might lat a raught at me, an’ gi’ me a clamiheuit to snib me free comin that gate agen.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1863), 207. ‘Get up, Saunders … or I’ll take ye siccan a clamhewit with my stick.’
