Etymology

clayes

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Today it means: wattles or hurdles made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments Full definition →

French claie
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The story

  1. French · derived fromclaie“hurdle”
  2. English todayclayes

French claie (“hurdle”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.