Sc. [Irregularly formed on claucht, pa. t. of CLEEK. Cf. clad vb.] To seize with claws; to clutch, snatch.
a. 1800. Jacobite Relics, I. 58 (Jam.). To claucht my daddie’s wee bit house.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xi. He saw Meg … claught the bairn suddenly out of the gauger’s arms.
