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noun
dialect British, Northern English, Scottish, Irish= handcloth .
Sc. National Dict. (at Hand) records the word as still in use in Shetland, Angus, Midlothian, and southern Scotland in 1956.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in William Marshall (bap. 1745, d. 1818), agricultural writer and land agent. From hand + clout.
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