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Webster 1913 Edition

(klōt)

Noun.

[AS.

clāte

: cf. G.

klette

The common burdock; the clotbur.

[Obs.]

Wyclif.

clote

(obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
- 1380s, John Wycliffe, Bible, Osee [Hosea], 9, vi,
  A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologe of the Chanouns Yemannes Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 1987, Larry Dean Benson (editor), The Riverside Chaucer, 2008, 3rd Edition, page 270,
  A clote-leef he hadde under his hood / For swoot and for to keep his heed from heete.