Meaning

A lump of something, especially earth or clay..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered clods of blood

clods of iron and brass

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

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

One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own.

"What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.

the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod

Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods.

Word Forms

• clods
• clodding
• clodded

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