Clod

Quick meaning: Clod is a noun meaning A lump of something, especially earth or clay.

Meaning

A lump of something, especially earth or clay.

More Meanings

1. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
2. A stupid person, a dolt, a clodpate, a clodhopper.
3. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
4. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
5. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
6. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

Example Sentences

clods of iron and brass

the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod

As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool.

The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.

Word Forms

• clods
• clodding
• clodded

Synonyms for clod

Depending on context, synonyms include gawk, clump, goon, lout, lump, ball.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clump, lump, glob, lout, lubber, stumblebum.

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