Plural of 'clour' or third-person singular present tense of the verb 'clour,' meaning strikes, hits, or blows.
From 'clour' with either plural '-s' (Old English '-as') or verbal '-s' suffix (from Old Norse influence on third-person singular formation in Northern English dialects).
This word demonstrates the ambiguity of English morphology—'clours' could be a plural noun (multiple strikes) or a singular verb (he clours), and English doesn't grammatically mark this distinction, relying entirely on context, which makes Old English texts sometimes frustratingly hard to parse.
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