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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
  2. n. Earth or soil.
  3. n. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Any lump or mass; sometimes, a concreted mass; a clot.
  2. n. Specifically A lump of earth, or earth and turf; a lump of clay.
  3. n. In coal-mining, indurated clay: the equivalent of bind.
  4. n. A stretch of ground or turf; earth; soil.
  5. n. Anything earthy, base, and vile; poetically, the body of man in comparison with his soul: as, “this corporeal clod,”
  6. n. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
  7. n. A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on worsted yarn: also called a bob. See clod-fishing.
  8. To pelt with clods or stones.
  9. To form into clods.
  10. To cover with earth, as seeds; harrow.
  11. To confine in what is earthy and base, as the soul in the body.
  12. To throw with violence.
  13. A dialectal variant of clothe.
  14. n. A butchers' term for a cut of beef from the fore quarter opposite the cross-rib.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a lump of something, especially of earth or clay
  2. n. a stupid person; a dolt

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
  2. n. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  3. n. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
  4. n. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
  5. n. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
  6. v. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot. See clot.
  7. v. To pelt with clods.
  8. v. To throw violently; to hurl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an awkward stupid person
  2. n. a compact mass

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, variant of clot, lump; see clot.

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