See Also: claik(dictionary)

strappado (iou) and claik (iou)


strappado (iou)



strappado noun. Pl. -os. M16.
[French (e)strapade from Italian strappata from strappare snatch: see -ADO.]
Hist.
A form of punishment or torture in which the victim was secured to a rope, usu. with the hands tied behind the back, made to fall from a height almost to the ground, then stopped with a jerk; an application of this; the instrument used. M16.
[By confusion with STRAP noun 6b.] A beating, a flogging. M17-M18.

claik (iou)



claik noun, interjection, & verb. Scot. LME.
[Imit.: cf. CLACK noun & interjection, verb.]
A. noun.
More fully claik goose. The barnacle goose. LME.
Also interjection. (Repr.) the harsh call of a goose, the cluck or cackle of a hen etc. L15.
Chatter, gossip; a gossipy person. L18.
b. verb intrans.
Of a goose: call harshly. Of a hen etc.: cluck, cackle. E16.
Chatter, talk tediously. M19.