Clad

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd

Origin

Alternative perfect and past participle of clothe: Old English geclæþd, past participle of clæþan ("to clothe"), from clað ("cloth"). Compare Icelandic klæða ("to clothe").

Full definition of clad

Verb

1. To clothe.The horse was clad with its best blanket.
• 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot (novel) Chapter VIIIBut what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, clad only in a thin bit of muslin which scarce covered her knees--a bit of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem.
2. To cover with insulation.

3. clad

   (past of clad)
4. (archaic)

   clad

   (past of clothe)

Anagrams

• DACL