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noun

Clod n.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." "Clods of iron and brass." "Clods of blood." "The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod."

The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. "The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod."

That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. "This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us."

A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt

A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

verb

Clod v. t.

To pelt with clods.

To throw violently; to hurl. (Scot.)

Clod v. i. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. "Clodded in lumps of clay."

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"Clod" Quotes from Famous Books

... But gained the god's own feeling when he gives Such thrill to what turns life from death before. 'Gods many and Lords many,' says the Book: You would have yielded up your soul to me —Not to the false god who has burned its clay In his own image. I had shed my love Like Spring dew on the clod all flowery thence, Not sent up a wild vapor to the sun that drinks and then disperses. Both of us Blameworthy,—I first meet my punishment— And not so hard to bear. I breathe again! Forth from those arms' enwinding leprosy At last I struggle—uncontaminate: ...

— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke

... not as fresh as it had been when the plants were there. And the vats which had taken the places of the banked greenery were certainly nothing to look at. Queex humped itself into a clod of blue, immovable, halfway down ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... sport to bait a poor soul as be helpless, I think—nay I know, for I've stood there myself ere now, though I won't say as I didn't clod this fellow once or twice to-day myself—I were a rare clodder in my time, aha! Did you ...

— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol

... each other's hand as if they stood prepared for combat before the tribunal of the praetor; he commanded them to produce the object of the dispute; they went, they returned with measured steps, and a clod of earth was cast at his feet to represent the field for which they contended. This occult science of the words and actions of law was the inheritance of the pontiffs and patricians. Like the Chaldean astrologers, they announced to their clients the days of business and repose; these important ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... Bruin heard this communication to an end, than, despite his promise and the poor dog's cries, he caught up a huge clod of earth and dropped it upon the devoted head of the struggling animal beneath. There was a great splash; a bubble or two came to the surface of the horrid pool, and the brutal deed was consummated. Yet at the same moment Bruin regretted he had been so precipitate, for he had ...

— The Adventures of a Bear - And a Great Bear too • Alfred Elwes

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