Clod Definition

klŏd
clods
noun
clods
A lump, esp. a lump of earth, clay, loam, etc.
Webster's New World
Earth; soil.
Webster's New World
A dull, stupid person; dolt.
Webster's New World
The part of a neck of beef nearest the shoulder.
Webster's New World
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verb

To pelt with clods.

Wiktionary

(Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.

Wiktionary
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
Clodded gore.
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Other Word Forms of Clod

Noun

Singular:
clod
Plural:
clods

Origin of Clod

  • Middle English variant of clot lump clot

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English clodde, related to clot.

    From Wiktionary

Clod Sentence Examples

  • Said the Doctor, " Tho now a mere clod is he, very soon you'll a sound mind in his body see!

  • While the service was taking place a huge clod of snow slipped from the roof and fell right against the church door.

  • Mineral oil is useful for lubricating a clod, but it also leaches Vitamin A from your cat's system.

  • Butter is thought to help loosen the hair clod, and the extra fiber found in squash is believed to help keep the mass moving out of the digestive tract.

  • The essential elements were livery of seisin (delivery of possession), which consisted in formally giving to the feoffee on the land a clod or turf, or a growing twig, as a symbol of the transfer of the land, and words by the feoffor declaratory of his intent to deliver possession to the feoffee with a "limitation" of the estate intended to be transferred.

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Words Starting With

CCLCLO

Words Ending With

DODLOD

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Words Starting With C and Ending With D

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