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Klepp [klæp], two hills in Fladabister, Conn. de Klepps [klæps] o’ Kollaster (Sa.), hills. — O.N. kleppr, m., a lump; block; knot (the root is handed down in sense of crag, rock, in the compds. “klepparnes, kleppu(r)nes”). No. klepp, m., a) a lump; b) crag; elevated point of land; c) a staff, supplied with an iron hook, by which large fish are hauled into the boat; in sense c to the North of the Dovrefjeld. Sw. kläpp, m., elevated height. The form of pronunc. “kləp” in Shetl. points most prob. to L.Sc. clip, sb., = klepp 1.

klesgord [klēsgōrd, klēskōrd; klæskər], sb., 1) the edges of the two rotating millstones where the adhesive meal-dust settles during the grinding of the corn; de k. o’ de mill. Nmⁿ. [klēsgōrd, klēskōrd]. 2) adhesive meal or meal-dust which, in grinding corn, settles on the edges of the millstones. Nmⁿ. [klēsgōrd, klēskōrd]; Ai. [klæskər]. *kleis-garðr (and *kless-garðr), m., “(surrounding) adhesive edge”. No. kleisa and klessa, vb. n., to adhere, stick, Sw. dial. klessa, vb. For the second part of the compd. see *gord, sb. Cf. klis(s)gord, sb.

klester [klɛstər, klæstər], sb., something pasted or smeared on; see the foll. word.

klester [klɛstər, klæstər], vb., to paste on; to smear on, esp. in an untidy or careless manner, e.g. paint or tar on a boat, whitewash on a stone-wall. Deriv. of *kleisa or *klessa, vb., to adhere, stick (see the preceding word). The word is most prob. a *kleistra; No. kleistra, vb., to squeeze the juice out of something, = klistra, vb., which also is used in sense of to deposit fluid, applied to sticky objects. Cf. klister, vb. In meaning and use of the word, Shetl. klester, klister, is

more closely allied to Da. klistre, to paste, than to No. kleistra, klistra.

klett¹ [klɛt, klæt], sb., 1) detached rock, esp. on the sea-shore; kletts, pl., sea-rocks; low-lying rocks on the coast; to dry fish on de “kletts”. In place-names, in which the word has a wider application (cliff, rock), it is sometimes found with more or less perfectly preserved, old terminations, e.g.: Klettin rø [klɛtən or klæten rø̄] (Hillswick, Nm^w.), prop. name of a red rock, “*klettrinn rauði”, but now only preserved as the name of a farm: *undir klettinum rauða. Kletterne [klæt··ərnɛ·] (W. Sw., Y.), def. form in the pl.: *klettarnir. de Kletters [klætərs] (Noss near Bressay): *klettar, O.N. pl. form with added Eng. pl. -s. “de Klettins”, fishing-bank near M.Roe (De^w.): “*klettar-nir” with added Eng. pl. -s. Elsewhere commonly: “Klett” and (in pl.) “Kletts”. A form “Kletta [klɛta]” (Ai.), name of a rocky hill, corresponds to No. klitta, f., = klett, m. 2) a large stone, intended for a certain purpose, esp.: a) (large) ballast-stone (Nm.); b) sinker of a fishing-line, mostly used as a tabu-name (Du.); see kappi, sb.; c) a whetstone (Du.), = glanklett, glan(i). 3) a pike; pointed fin, esp. of a shark (or whale) and of a ray; de k. o’ de ho, de kletts o’ de skate (Nmⁿ.). — O.N. klettr, m., (detached) rock; cliff; crag, prop. and originally in a more extended meaning clod. In Ork. and Caithness dial. esp. of a detached rock in the sea.

klett² [klætt], sb., a tough lump; small, sticky mass, in pl., kletts, esp. appl. to too damp and badly ground meal, which settles in lumps on the edges of or between the millstones; also appl. to tar, badly smeared (in lumps), “de corn comes ut in kletts”, in grinding of imperfectly dried corn. N.I. (U., Fe.). Cf. Sw.