Scottish: past participle form indicating the action of grasping, clutching, or seizing has been completed.
From Scots clauch (to grasp) with past participle ending -ed/-it, representing an older or alternative Scots formation compared to claught.
The existence of multiple past tense forms—claught and claughted—shows how languages evolve differently in isolated communities; both forms might have coexisted, with one eventually winning out in written standards.
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