Sc. [f. CLAIK v.]
1. The cry or call of a goose or other fowl.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 39. The fox follouit the fed geise, & gart them cry claik.
1808. Jamieson, Claik, the noise made by a hen.
2. Chatter, gossip, clatter. (Cf. cackle.)
1790. Morrison, Poems, 187 (Jam.). The country’s fu’ Wi’ lees and claiks, about young Ket and you.
3. (Also 6–9 clake, 7 clayk, 8 cleck, 9 clack.) The Barnacle-goose, Anas leucopsis, probably so named from its call.
c. 1455. Houlate, xvii. Correker of kirkmen was clepit the Claik.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), I. 22. These claiks (or Barnacls as I call them).
1694. Narborough, etc. Acc. Sev. Late Voy. (1711), Introd. 14. They discovered the Bernacle Goose or Clakis sitting upon their Eggs, under the 80th Deg. north Lat.
b. More fully claik-goose.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. Introd. 48. Of the nature of Claik Geis … Sum men belevis, that thir clakis growis on treis be the nebbis.
16[?]. Monipennie, in Macleod, Hist. Dumbarton (1878), II. 49. Clayk geese black of colour.
1706. J. Watson, Collect. Poems, I. 48 (Jam.). When the Cleck Geese leave off to clatter.
1744. Preston, Zetland, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 61. There are many Sorts of Wild-fowl; namely, the Dunter Goose, Clark [? = Claik], Goose, Solan Goose, [etc.].
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xliv. Like sea-maws and clack-geese before a storm.
1841. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. 255. The bernicle or clake goose.
4. The BARNACLE shell.
1703. M. Martin, Descr. Western Isl. (1716), 357.
1744. Preston, Zetland, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 62. Pieces of Wreck … grown over with the Shells of a Fish called Cleck Geese, which I take to be the Conchæ anatiferæ.
