What does clyack mean?
Clyack means (Scotland, dated) Completion of the harvest season, harvesting the last sheaf of grain.
Clyack
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Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Clyack is a noun meaning (Scotland, dated) Completion of the harvest season, harvesting the last sheaf of grain.
Meaning
(Scotland, dated) Completion of the harvest season, harvesting the last sheaf of grain.
Example Sentences
There are still a good many stooks about the hill sides, and Ardiecow managed to get clyack tonight.
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.
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There are still a good many stooks about the hill sides, and Ardiecow managed to get clyack tonight.
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