v. dial. Also clawk, clowk, Sc. cluke, cleuk, cleuck, clook. [f. prec.]
1. trans. To claw, to scratch.
1825. Jamieson, s.v. Cleuck, The cat’ll cleuck ye.
1883. Huddersf. Gloss., s.v., The cat cloked me.
† 2. = CLUTCH v. 4, 5. Sc.
a. 1785. Forbes, Dominic Depos’d, 37 (Jam.). The Carlings Maggy had so cleuked.
[1886. S. W. Lincolnsh. Gloss., Clawk, to snatch, claw up, clutch.
1878. Cumberland Gloss., Clowk, to snatch.]
