Meaning & use
Clour
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Chiefly Scottish and Northern English dialect: a bump or lump raised on the skin by a blow; also used as a verb meaning to strike someone hard enough to raise such a bump.
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He came home from the match with a nasty clour on his forehead.
Mind you don't clour your head on that low doorway.
A note on using this word
A regional dialect word still heard in Scotland and northern England, rarely used in standard written English outside dialect literature and dictionaries.
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