Meaning of clyack | Babel Free

Definitions

Completion of the harvest season, harvesting the last sheaf of grain.

Scotland, dated, uncountable

Examples

“get clyack”

finish the harvest

“The “clyack” sheaf was cut by the maidens on the harvest field. On no account was it allowed to touch the ground.”

“Mr. Duff, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, tells me that in his part of Aberdeenshire there is a competition as to who shall have the last sheaf (the clyack sheaf) like that at Balquhidder, but with this difference, that the last corn left standing and hidden is cut by the reaper himself, not, as at Balquhidder, by the girl who followed binding.”

“There are still a good many stooks about the hill sides, and Ardiecow managed to get clyack tonight.”

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