Clod

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːd
• UK IPA: /klÉ’d/
• Rhymes: -É’d

Origin

Old English clodde, related to clot.

Full definition of clod

Noun

1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
• Miltonclods of iron and brass
• E. Fairfaxclods of blood
• Francis BaconThe earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.
• T. Burnetthis cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
• 2010, Clare Vanderpool, "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
• Jonathan Swiftthe clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
3. A stupid person; a dolt.
4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

Verb

1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.clodded gore
• G. FletcherClodded in lumps of clay.

Anagrams

• cold