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klout: As substantive (הסּחבות, ha-sÌ£ehÌ£aÌ„bhoÌ„th) a patch or piece of cloth, leather, or the like, a rag, a shred, or fragment. Old “cast clouts and old rotten rags†(, the King James Version). As verb (טל×, tÌ£aÌ„laÌ„') “to bandage,†“patch,†or mend with a clout. “Old shoes and clouted (the American Standard Revised Version “patchedâ€) upon their feet†(; compare Shakespeare, Cym., IV, 2: “I thought he slept, And put my clouted brogues from off my feetâ€; Milton, Comus: “And the dull swain treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.