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/kləʊv/ · noun
(uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree..
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs
Use clove when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clove means (uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree..
Common synonyms include garlic clove, clove tree, eugenia aromaticum, eugenia caryophyllatum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
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