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Clod

//klɑd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A lump of something, especially earth or clay.

    "clods of iron and brass"

  2. 2
    a compact mass wordnet
  3. 3
    The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

    "the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod"

  4. 4
    an awkward stupid person wordnet
  5. 5
    A stupid person, a dolt, a clodpate, a clodhopper.

    "The vulgar, a scarce animated clod"

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  1. 6
    Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
Verb
  1. 1
    To pelt with clods. transitive

    ""When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone.""

  2. 2
    To throw violently; to hurl. Scotland, transitive

    ""So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch-head""

  3. 3
    To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

    "Clodded in lumps of clay."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”). Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”). Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).

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