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- noun Plural form of
clodpole .
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Examples
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She made little progresses to the neighbouring towns in her gilt coach-and-six, or to the village in her chair, and asserted a quasi-regal right of homage from her tenants and other clodpoles.
The Virginians 2006
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"But surely you can get into something better than the office of schoolmaster, to the sons of clodpoles."
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She made little progresses to the neighbouring towns in her gilt coach-and-six, or to the village in her chair, and asserted a quasi-regal right of homage from her tenants and other clodpoles.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The clodpoles looked scared and very quiet, till I went up to one of them who knew me, ” of course I was in my natural physiognomy, ” and I said to him, “My friend, these are foreigners:” and the poor ignoramus staring at those portentous noses said seriously,
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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"Never take it so heavily, my love!" exclaimed Butler, familiarly seizing her hand, whose trembling now betrayed her agitation, -- "it is the mere sport of the war to be upon a running service, where a light stratagem or so will baffle a set of dull-pated clodpoles!
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