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Blote vs Clote - What's the difference?

blote | clote |

As a verb blote

is to cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

As a noun clote is

the common burdock; the clotbur.

blote

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    clote

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
  • * 1380s , , 9, vi,
    • A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.
  • * 14thC', '', '''1987 , Larry Dean Benson (editor), ''The Riverside Chaucer , 2008, 3rd Edition, page 270,
    • A clote -leef he hadde under his hood / For swoot and for to keep his heed from heete.
    (Webster 1913)