CLOUT

klout: As substantive (ha-cechabhoth) a patch or piece of cloth, leather, or the like, a rag, a shred, or fragment. Old "cast clouts and old rotten rags" (Jeremiah 38:11, 12 the King James Version). As verb (Tala') "to bandage," "patch," or mend with a clout. "Old shoes and clouted (the American Standard Revised Version "patched") upon their feet" (Joshua 9:5); compare Shakespeare, Cym., IV, 2: "I thought he slept, And put my clouted brogues from off my feet"; Milton, Comus: "And the dull swain treads on it daily with his clouted shoon."

1. (n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

2. (n.) A swadding cloth.

3. (n.) A piece; a fragment.

4. (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

5. (n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

6. (n.) A blow with the hand.

7. (n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.

8. (n.) To join or patch clumsily.

9. (n.) To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

10. (n.) To give a blow to; to strike.

11. (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.

5499. sechabah -- a rag
... Word Origin from sachab Definition a rag NASB Word Usage clothes (2). cast clout.
From cachab; a rag -- cast clout. see HEBREW cachab. << 5498, 5499. ...
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