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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