different between blote vs clote

English

Verb

blote (third-person singular simple present blotes, present participle bloting, simple past and past participle bloted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

Anagrams

• Bolte, betol, botel

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse blóta, from Proto-Germanic *bl?tan?, cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (bl?tan, “to worship”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?lo?d??]

Verb

blote (imperative blot, infinitive at blote, present tense bloter, past tense blotede, perfect tense har blotet)

1. to make a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

blote

1. Inflected form of bloot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

blote (present tense blotar, past tense blota, past participle blota, passive infinitive blotast, present participle blotande, imperative blot)

1. Alternative form of blóte
2. Alternative form of blòte

Noun

blote m or f (definite singular bloten or blota, indefinite plural blotar or bloter, definite plural blotane or blotene)

1. Alternative form of blòte

English

Etymology

From Old English cl?te, from Proto-Germanic *kl?þô.

Noun

clote

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Celto-, colet, telco

Middle English

Noun

clote

1. Alternative form of clete (“cleat”)