dial. [Cf. CLOUT sb.1] A blow.

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c. 1650.  Turke & Gowin, 142, in Furnivall, Percy Folio, I. 95. Thou shalt see a tenisse ball that neuer knight in Arthurs hall is able to giue it a lout.

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1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., I fetch’d him a lout upo’ th’ side o’ th’ heäd.

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