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Clod

Clod Meaning & Definition
Clod Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Clod?

[n] a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
[n] an awkward stupid person

Synonyms | Synonyms for Clod: ball | chunk | clump | gawk | glob | goon | klutz | lout | lubber | lummox | lump | lump | oaf | stumblebum

Related Terms | Find terms related to Clod: acres | alluvion | alluvium | anatomy | arable land | ass | batch | blade roast | block | blockhead | blunderer | blunderhead | body | Boeotian | bones | boob | boor | botcher | breast | brisket | bucolic | bulk | bumbler | bumpkin | bungler | carcass | Chateaubriand | chuck | chuck roast | chump | chunk | clay | clodhopper | clodknocker | clot | clown | clump | cold cuts | corpus | country bumpkin | crust | dimwit | dirt | dolt | donkey | dope | dry land | dullard | dumb cluck | dumbbell | dummy | dunce | dust | earth | farmer | figure | filet mignon | flank | flesh | fool | form | frame | freehold | fumbler | gawk | gawky | glebe | gob | gowk | grassland | ground | hayseed | hick | hillbilly | hulk | hunch | hunk | idiot | jerk | jobbernowl | klutz | knuckle | lackwit | lamebrain | land | landholdings | lightweight | lithosphere | loaf | loin | looby | loon | lout | lubber | lummox | lump | marginal land | marl | mass | material body | mold | Neanderthal | niais | nincompoop | ninny | ninnyhammer | nitwit | noddy | nugget | oaf | ox | pat | person | physical body | physique | plate | plate piece | pot roast | put | quantity | rack | real estate | real property | region | regolith | rib roast | ribs | roast | rolled roast | round | rube | rump | rump roast | rustic | saddle | shank | short ribs | shoulder | shoulder clod | simpleton | sirloin | slouch | slubberer | sod | soil | soma | stupid | subaerial deposit | subsoil | tenderloin | terra | terra firma | terrain | territory | the country | thickwit | topsoil | torso | trunk | vegetable | wad | witling | woodland | yokel

See Also | agglomeration | clew | clot | clumsy person | coagulum | gob

Clod In Webster's Dictionary

\Clod\ (kl[o^]d), n. [OE. clodde, latter form of clot. See {Clot}.] 1. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. ``Clods of a slimy substance.'' --Carew. ``Clods of iron and brass.'' --Milton. ``Clods of blood.'' --E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. --Bacon. 2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. --Swift. 3. 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. --T. Burnet. 4. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt --Dryden. 5. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of {Beef}.
\Clod\ (kl[o^]d), 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. --G. Fletcher.
\Clod\, v. t. 1. To pelt with clods. --Jonson. 2. To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

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