Clod

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
  • n. Earth or soil.
  • n. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a lump of something, especially of earth or clay
  • n. a stupid person; a dolt
  • v. To pelt with clods.
  • v. To throw violently; to hurl.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
  • n. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • n. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
  • n. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
  • n. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
  • verb-intransitive. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot. See clot.
  • v. To pelt with clods.
  • v. To throw violently; to hurl.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any lump or mass; sometimes, a concreted mass; a clot.
  • n. Specifically A lump of earth, or earth and turf; a lump of clay.
  • n. In coal-mining, indurated clay: the equivalent of bind.
  • n. A stretch of ground or turf; earth; soil.
  • n. Anything earthy, base, and vile; poetically, the body of man in comparison with his soul: as, “this corporeal clod,”
  • n. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
  • n. A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on worsted yarn: also called a bob. See clod-fishing.
  • To pelt with clods or stones.
  • To form into clods.
  • To cover with earth, as seeds; harrow.
  • To confine in what is earthy and base, as the soul in the body.
  • To throw with violence.
  • A dialectal variant of clothe.
  • n. A butchers' term for a cut of beef from the fore quarter opposite the cross-rib.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an awkward stupid person
  • n. a compact mass
  • Verb Form
    clodded    clodding    clods   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    beef    clot   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dolt    coagulate    hurl    lump    earth    blockhead   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sod    pebble    lout    clump    lump    hummocks    gravel    clot    rut    mound