[f. CLOUT v.]
1. The action of mending, patching, etc.
1382. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 509. Cristis clene religioun wiþoute cloutynge of sinfulle mennis errours.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 84. Clowtynge of clothys, sartura. Ibid. (c. 1490), (MS. K). Clowtynge of shone, pictacio.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 30 b. Here passe I ouer the clowtynge in of their canonicall houres.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 49. It is a bad sacke that will abide no cloutyng.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 294. An Arab man in cloak of his own clouting.
attrib. 1590. Greene, Never too late (1600), 96. To furnish a Coblers shoppe with clowting leather.
2. Cuffing, striking with the hand.
3. = BAGGING vbl. sb.2: see CLOUT v. 8.
