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Flote vs Clote - What's the difference?

flote | clote |

As a verb flote

is .

As a noun clote is

(obsolete) the common burdock; the clotbur.

flote

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (flite).

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) flot, (etyl) (lena) (fluctus); also compare (float) (noun).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wave.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • [...] they all have met again, / And are upon the Mediterranean flote / Bound sadly home for Naples [...]

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (flot)
  • To fleet; to skim.
    • (Tusser)
    (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)