Clove

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"Clove" in a Sentence (9 examples)

A clove cigarette miasma made navigating the pub like swimming underwater.

Is eating a clove of garlic every day beneficial to your health?

I don't know how to tie a clove hitch.

Tom was smoking a hand-rolled clove cigarette.

If you smoke in Indonesia — and chances are high that you do, as the country is on track to have the world’s highest smoking rate within the next decade — you’re likely a fan of kreteks, the clove cigarettes that are omnipresent in the island nation.

Clove is a spice.

Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.

clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs

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