Clump

/klʌmp/ · noun

Meaning

A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass..

Definitions by Sense

1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
2. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
3. A dull thud.
4. The compressed clay of coal strata.
5. A small group of trees or plants.
6. (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
7. (ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
8. (ambitransitive) To gather in dense groups.

Example Sentences

There are suitable clumps of gorse a little way back, sir. I anticipate that you would be quite safe there, or I would not suggest it, sir.

clump of trees

She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.

Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.

clump-burned bricks

There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!

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• clumps
• clumping
• clumped

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