CLOD • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Clod

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

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."

See images of 'Clod'

Etymology of 'Clod'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Clod" Quotes from Famous Books

... no longer," continued Kraken. "Formerly everyone fled at my approach. I carried away hens and rabbits in my bag; I drove sheep and pigs, cows, and oxen before me. To-day these clod-hoppers keep a good guard; they sit up at night. Just now I was pursued in the village of Anis by doughty labourers armed with flails and scythes and pitchforks. I had to drop the hens and rabbits, ...

— Penguin Island • Anatole France

... hopeless trying to make this clod understand. His brain was not built with the right cells for understanding me. 'Lord Southminster,' I said, turning upon him and clasping my hands, 'I will not go away while you stop here. But you have some spark enough of a gentleman in your composition, ...

— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen

... that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering. I had already remarked that his language ...

— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London

... of Progress! Maximilian smiled scornfully on himself. He was only a clod of grit caught in the world's great wheels. The foreign substance had wrought a discordant screech for a moment, and then was mercilessly ground into powder and thrust out of the bearings. He pondered on the first days ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... former. But, Lord! to see how he did with his admirable eloquence order the matter, is not to be conceived almost: so pleasant a thing it is to hear him plead. Then at noon by coach home, and thither by and by comes cozen Turner, and The., and Joyce, in their riding-clod: they being come from their lodgings to her husbands chamber, at the Temple, and there do lie, and purpose to go out of town on Friday next; and here I had a good dinner for them. After dinner by water to White Hall, where the Duke of York did meet our Office, and went with us to ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

More quotes...