clavies

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A form of clavie — A cask split in two and ceremonially burned as part of an ancient Scottish custom still observed at Burghead, a fishing village on the Moray Firth.

Scrabble 12

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noun
  1. pluralplural of clavie
  2. pluralplural of clavy

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