The action of the vb. CLOT, in various senses.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVIII. xix. 579 (R.). Badly is that land ploughed, which after the corn is sowed, needs the great harrowes and clotting.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Clotting, a West country method of catching eels with worsted thread.
1880. J. W. Legg, Bile, 90. The clotting of the blood in the vessels.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Clotting, the sintering or semi-fusion of ores.
b. Comb., as clotting-beetle, † clotting-mall (-maule, -mell), a clod-mall.
1483. Cath. Angl., 68. A Clottyng malle, occatorium.
1620. Markham, Farew. Husb., II. xv. (1668), 68. What clots you cannot break with your Harrows … you shall break with your clotting-beetle.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (1856), 138. Two or three men with clottinge melles to breake them small.
1834. Brit. Husb., I. 314. Any large lumps remaining … should be broken with mallets, or clotting-beetles.
