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dial. kladd, m., (damp) lump; a piece of dough; a moist lump of clay, No. kladd, m., a lump. In form, however, the word assimilates more closely to Da. klat, c., No. klatt, m., a lump; mass.

klett [klæt], vb., appl. to a quern or mill in grinding of damp corn: to crush the corn insufficiently, pressing it into tough, sticky lumps; de mill kletts de corn. U.; Fe. Also as vb. n.: to form tough lumps, appl. to corn, not properly ground, and to damp meal; also of tar, badly smeared, de corn or meal kletts (U.). de corn is klettet (forming lumps) in under or aboot de mill; de meal is klettet at de sides o’ de basin (U.). de tar is klettet, the tar is badly and unevenly smeared (U.). Syn. with Da. klatte, vb.? (to daub, etc.). Cf. also No. kledda, vb., = kladda, to adhere, and Sw. dial. kleta, vb., to spread, smear on.

klett [klɛt, klæt]-fish, sb., a species of whale with spinous fins like the shark (de ho), squalus acanthias. Nmⁿ. (Ske.). See klett¹, sb. 3.

klev [klēv], sb., 1) a brink or steep slope over which a path leads; now almost obsolete in the spoken language, but often used as a place-name, the meaning of which is still partly understood, e.g. de K. o’ Mangister, o’ Olnesfirt’ (Nm^w.). On Wests. is found a form klevi [klēvi] in sense of a steep path; thus in Ai. (Onnefirt’). In Fo. klev and klevi as (common noun and) place-name (de K.) de Klevi o’ Tresta (Fe.). 2) barren ground, a spot where the soil has been taken off the surface, leaving only the gravel or the rocky ground. Y^h. — O.N. kleif, f., steep, rocky slope; steep ascent; Icel. kleif, No. and Fær. kleiv, Sw. dial. klev, f., partly a rocky slope, partly steep ascent; steep, rocky path.

klever, sb., see kleberg, sb.

klevi [klēvi (klē^əvi)], sb., a hollow in the ground caused by trampling; a place trampled up by animals; a sheep-k., sheeps’ k.; tramped like a sheeps’ k. (Fe.). N.I. Prob. for *kløvi by change of ø to e (cf. e.g. er³, sb., from ør), poss. by influence of klev (klevi), steep slope or track. In that case, prop. a place trampled up by cloven-footed animals; cf. Fær. kleyva (orig. *klaufa), vb., to trample, prop. appl. to cloven-footed animals: to trample up the ground, from O.N. klauf, f., a cloven hoof.

klewel [klēwəl], sb., a strap, band, plaited from horse-hair (or straw), which goes (went) under the neck of a plough-ox, and is (was) tied on each side with the so-called besels (pieces of wood, fixed to the yoke) in ploughing with the old, now obsolete, Shetl. wooden plough. Nm^s., Conn. Deriv. of O.N. klafi (No. klave, Sw. klafve), m., collar for an animal, “collar put round a cow’s neck to tie it up in the stall” (Fr.).

klibasten, sb., see klibbi¹, klibi¹, sb.

klibbatengs, klib(b)itengs, sb. pl., see klipitengs.

klibber [klɩbər], sb., a pack-saddle: two flat pieces of wood (one on each side of the horse) with projecting handles, crossing each other over the horse’s back, on which the carrying-baskets (de kessis) are hung. comm. Also in Ork. and in Caithness. O.N. klyfberi (No. klyvbar, “klybbar”, klyvbere, Fær. “klibbari”), m., a pack-saddle.

klibbi¹ [klɩbi] and klibi¹ [klibi, kli̇̄bi, klɩ̄bi], sb., a roundish stone (prop. steatite), used in foll. senses: a) a stone, made red-hot in the fire, plunged into the milk, in churning butter, in order to separate the curd from the whey; this procedure is (was) used when the water, poured on, is (was) not hot enough or insufficient in quan-