To call out or cry shrilly; to make a high-pitched sound.
Imitative origin, possibly from Middle English 'cliten' or related to Old Norse 'klifra.' Rare and dialectal.
This is one of English's forgotten onomatopoetic verbs—it literally tried to capture the sound of something squealing or crying out, the kind of word that would have been common among people who worked with livestock.
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