v. Sc. intr. ‘To fall heavily’ (Jam.).
c. 1719. Hamilton, Epist. Ramsay, II. xvi. in R.’s Poems. Upon my bum I fairly cloited On the cold eard.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 278. He cloits doun first on his hurdies, and then on his tae side.
Hence Cloit sb., ‘a hard or heavy fall’ (Jam.).
1822. Galt, Provost, 203 (Jam.). Down she fell on her back, at full length, with a great cloyt.
