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430 kladd,, (damp) lump; a piece of dough; a moist lump of clay, kladd,, a lump. In form, however, the word assimilates more closely to klat, , klatt,, a lump; mass.

klett [klæt],, to a quern or mill in grinding of damp corn: to crush the corn insufficiently, pressing it into tough, sticky lumps; de mill de corn. ; Also as : to form tough lumps, to corn, not properly ground, and to damp meal; also of tar, badly smeared, de corn or meal. de corn is (forming lumps) in under or aboot de mill; de meal is at de sides o’ de basin . de tar is, the tar is badly and unevenly smeared. with klatte, ? (to daub, ). also  kledda,, = kladda, to adhere, and kleta,, to spread, smear on.

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

klev [klēv],, 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, de K. o’ Mangister, o’ Olnesfirt’ . On is found a form  [klēvi] in sense of a steep path; thus in  (Onnefirt’). In   and  as (common noun and) place-name (de K.) de o’ Tresta . 2) barren ground, a spot where the soil has been taken off the surface, leaving only the gravel or the rocky ground. —  kleif,, steep, rocky slope; steep ascent; kleif, and kleiv,  klev, , partly a rocky slope, partly steep ascent; steep, rocky path.

klever,, see ,

klevi [klēvi (klē$1$vi)],, a hollow in the ground caused by trampling; a place trampled up by animals; a sheep-k., sheeps’ k.; tramped like a sheeps’ k.. for * by change of ø to e ( $w$,, from ),  by influence of , steep slope or track. In that case, a place trampled up by cloven-footed animals; kleyva ( *klaufa),, to trample, to cloven-footed animals: to trample up the ground, from klauf,, a cloven hoof.

klewel [klēwəl],, 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 (pieces of wood, fixed to the yoke) in ploughing with the old, now obsolete, wooden plough. ,  of  klafi ( klave, klafve),, collar for an animal, “collar put round a cow’s neck to tie it up in the stall” (Fr.).

klibasten,, see $h$, $ə$,

klibbatengs, klib(b)itengs, , see.

klibber [klɩbər],, 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 ) are hung. Also in and in Caithness. klyfberi ( klyvbar, “klybbar”, klyvbere, “klibbari”), , a pack-saddle.

klibbi$3$ [klɩbi] and klibi$s$ [klibi, kli̇̄bi, klɩ̄bi],, a roundish stone ( steatite), used in 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