dial. [With sense 1, cf. Da. klat blot, splash of dirt; also CLOT, CLOD. Sense 2 may be quite distinct, and possibly related to CLAUT.]
1. A clod, a clot of dirt, esp. of cow-dung.
1619. Z. Boyd, Battle of Soul (1629), 35 (Jam.). Wormes crawling and creeping vpon a clat or clod of clay.
1829. [J. L. Knapp], Jrnl. Naturalist, 49. A dry March for the clat-harvest was considered as very desirable.
1834. Brit. Husb., I. 27. Clats … the dung of cattle as fuel … collected from the pastures at the close of summer.
1877. N. W. Lincoln. Gloss., Clat, (2) Anything dirty or sticky, (4) Spoon meat.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Clat, var. pron. of ‘clot’ and ‘clod,’ a spot or lump of dirt, soil, etc. Applied specially to the droppings of cattle.
1888. Elworthy, W. Som. Gloss., Clat, a clod, a sod. Cow-clat, a dried cowdung. Also a bunch of worms having worsted drawn through them for clatting (catching eels); a clot (e.g. of blood).
2. ‘Seeds’ or pales sifted out of meal, bran.
1595. Duncan, App. Etymol., Furfur, purgamentum farinæ, branne, clats, seids of meal.
c. 1720. W. Gibson, Farrier’s Dispens., § 8 (1734), 194. Bran or Clats of any kind.
