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noun

Clod n.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." "Clods of iron and brass." "Clods of blood." "The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod."

The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. "The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod."

That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. "This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us."

A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt

A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

verb

Clod v. t.

To pelt with clods.

To throw violently; to hurl. (Scot.)

Clod v. i. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. "Clodded in lumps of clay."

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Etymology of 'Clod'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clod" Quotes from Famous Books

... Meg, stepping up to him with a frown of indignation that made her dark eyes flash like lamps from under her bent brows,—"Fule-body! if I meant ye wrang, couldna I clod [*Hurl.] ye ower that craig [*Steep rock.], and wad man ken how ye cam by your end mair than Frank Kennedy? Hear ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... afraid that I must conclude that her unchivalrous clod of a husband has indeed stooped to make ...

— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... black eyes on either side of the head EE, from one of which I could see a very bright reflection of the window, which made me ghess, that the Cornea of it was smooth, like those of bigger Insects. Its motion was pretty quick and strong, it being able very easily to tumble a stone or clod four times as big as its ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... interests me more than what is thought and supposed. Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an ...

— Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller

... may assist in bearing the bier, and once they set the bier on the ground and leave two pice and some grain where it lay, before taking it up again. After the funeral each person who has helped to carry it takes up a clod of earth and with it touches successively the place on his shoulder where the bier rested, his waist and his knee, afterwards dropping the clod on the ground. It is believed that by so doing he removes from his shoulder the weight of the corpse, ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

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