Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. 2. (n.) A swadding cloth. 3. (n.) A piece; a fragment. 4. (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 5. (n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer. 6. (n.) A blow with the hand. 7. (n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. 8. (n.) To join or patch clumsily. 9. (n.) To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 10. (n.) To give a blow to; to strike. 11. (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CLOUT klout: As substantive (ha-cechabhoth) a patch or piece of cloth, leather, or the like, a rag, a shred, or fragment. Old "cast clouts and old rotten rags" (Jeremiah 38:11, 12 the King James Version). As verb (Tala') "to bandage," "patch," or mend with a clout. "Old shoes and clouted (the American Standard Revised Version "patched") upon their feet" (Joshua 9:5); compare Shakespeare, Cym., IV, 2: "I thought he slept, And put my clouted brogues from off my feet"; Milton, Comus: "And the dull swain treads on it daily with his clouted shoon."