Definition of "clart"

clart

/klɑːt/

noun
plural clarts
1. A daub.
2. (now Scotland, Northern England) Sticky mud, mire or filth.
  Quotations
  I’m but a county Surveyor,– not really at m’ best upon the grand and global type of expedition, content here at home, old Geordie a-slog thro’ the clarts […].
  1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
3. (Geordie, derogatory) A person who is unclean.
4. (Geordie, derogatory) A fool.
5. Unwanted stuff; junk; clutter; rubbish; stuff that is in the way.
verb
third-person singular simple present clarts, present participle clarting, simple past and past participle clarted
1. (transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
  Quotations
  Chris boiled water in kettles for hours and hours and then towels came down, towels clairted with stuff she didn't dare look at, she washed them quick and hung them to dry.
  1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 43