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Clump

//klʌmp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
  2. 2
    a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) wordnet
  3. 3
    A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.

    "clump of trees"

  4. 4
    a grouping of a number of similar things wordnet
  5. 5
    A dull thud.

    "She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head."

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  1. 6
    a compact mass wordnet
  2. 7
    The compressed clay of coal strata.

    "clump-burned bricks"

  3. 8
    A small group of trees or plants.
  4. 9
    A thick addition to the sole of a shoe. historical
Verb
  1. 1
    To form clusters or lumps. ambitransitive
  2. 2
    gather or cause to gather into a cluster wordnet
  3. 3
    To gather in dense groups. ambitransitive
  4. 4
    walk clumsily wordnet
  5. 5
    To walk with heavy footfalls. intransitive
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  1. 6
    come together as in a cluster or flock wordnet
  2. 7
    To strike; to beat. UK, regional, transitive

    "There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!"

  3. 8
    make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”). Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp. Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.

Etymology 2

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”). Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp. Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.

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