Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A person's pocket.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo seize; to steal.
Probably related to claw (compare Low German kleien, klaien (“to claw, scratch, grasp, seize”), dialectal German klauen, kläuen, kleuen (“to steal”), German klauen (“to steal, rip off”)). Alternatively referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); "to fake a cly" was to take a garment.
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